Karen Bass nearly has a cow after Trump freezes UCLA funds--but wait, there's more!

Well look who's throwing a tantrum now. Failed Los Angeles Democrat Mayor Karen Bass took to social media late Friday night, positively seething over news that the Trump administration yanked over half a billion bucks in funding from UCLA for playing footsie with anti-Semitism on campus. Apparently, the university thought it could just ignore those pesky allegations of Jew-hatred without consequence. 

They thought wrong.

Bass, who's never been accused of being the brightest light on the Chanukah bush  (remember when she jetted off to Ghana while the Palisades wildfires raged, only to mosey back like it was no big deal?), is predictably late to the outrage party. And oh boy, she is gonna lose her tiny mind when she hears the latest: The Trump administration is now gunning for a billion-dollar settlement from UCLA. Yes, you read that right, a cool $1 billion for letting their campus turn into a cesspool of civil rights violations tied to anti-Semitism during those oh-so-enlightened pro-Palestinian protests.

The deal on the table is that UCLA coughs up the billion in installments, sets up a $172 million fund for victims of discrimination, and makes some actual policy changes. We're talking revamping their protest rules, rethinking those race-based scholarships, and, get this, cutting funding for gender-affirming care at UCLA's hospital. No more little boys getting their wee-wees chopped off, nor girls their breasts. 

This is reasonable stuff, unless you're one of the woke overlords running UCLA into the dirt, in which case you're probably clutching your pearls and screaming about the end of the world.

UC President James Milliken, for instance, is out here whining that the financial hit would "devastate" UCLA's research mission and the entire public university system. 

"As a public university, we are stewards of taxpayer resources and a payment of this scale would completely devastate our country's greatest public university system as well as inflict great harm on our students and all Californians," Milliken bleated in a statement. Sorry Jimmy, maybe if you had been better "stewards" of taxpayer cash instead of letting your campus become a playground for liberal lunacy, you wouldn't be in this mess. 

Just spitballing here.

Meanwhile, $584 million in federal research funding is already on ice as leverage, and Bass is not a fan. She called it a "reckless decision" that "will have devastating consequences for scientific progress." 

UCLA Chancellor Julio Frenk is also having a full-on meltdown, warning, "If these funds remain suspended," per Politico, "it will be devastating for UCLA and for Americans across the nation."

Let’s be real: Nobody is losing sleep over UCLA potentially ponying up a billion bucks for fostering bigotry, ignoring it, and then doubling down. And honestly, they'd be a lot better off, maybe even earn a modicum of respect, if they ditched the racial discrimination, anti-Semitism, and advocacy for child mutilation. Just a thought.

That being said, what are your thoughts?

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Trial begins for UCLA Prof. who refused to "exercise compassion" with race-based grading

The trial of UCLA accounting professor Gordon Klein is underway in Santa Monica, and it’s a doozy. Klein’s suing the university for $22 million after they suspended him in 2020 for refusing to go along with a student demand to grade Black students more leniently following thug George Floyd’s death. 

Talk about a case that cuts right to the heart of campus insanity.

Back in June 2020, with the nation reeling from Floyd’s death, a group of Klein’s students emailed him, demanding a “no-harm” final exam that could only boost their grades, with shorter tests and extended deadlines. Their reasoned that they were too traumatized to focus on finals because, as they put it, “we have been placed in a position where we much (sic) choose between actively supporting our Black classmates or focusing on finishing up our spring quarter.” They added, “We believe that remaining neutral in times of injustice brings power to the oppressor and therefore staying silent is not an option.”

They insisted this wasn’t about canceling finals for non-Black students but about asking Klein to “exercise compassion and leniency with black students in our major.” Sounds like a not-so-subtle call for race-based grading, doesn’t it?

Klein wasn’t having it. His response was a masterclass in sarcasm that landed him in hot water. “Thanks for your suggestion in your email below that I give Black students special treatment, given the tragedy in Minnesota,” he fired back. Then he went for the jugular: “Do you know the names of the classmates that are Black? How can I identify them since we’ve been having online classes only?” He didn’t stop there, asking about students of “mixed parentage, such as half Black-half Asian? What do you suggest I do with respect to them? A full concession or just half?”

Klein even pointed out that “a White student from [Minneapolis] might be possibly even more devastated by this, especially because some might think that they’re racist even if they are not.” He capped it off with MLK’s iconic line about judging people by character, not skin color. You’d think that’d be a slam dunk, but no, students screenshotted his email, posted it online, and the outrage, virtue-signaling mob descended.

UCLA's cowards caved fast, suspending Klein in June 2020. 

Anderson School Dean Antonio Bernardo tut-tutted in a campus message, saying, “Conduct that demonstrates a disregard for our core principles, including an abuse of power, is not acceptable.” He added, “I deeply regret the increased pain and anger that our community has experienced at this very difficult time.” 

The university reinstated him by September, but the damage was done. Klein’s lawsuit claims UCLA torched his lucrative expert witness practice, where he pulled in about $1 million a year on cases like Michael Jackson’s wrongful death suit. “By this moment, as a direct and immediate result of [his] public suspension and excoriation, Professor Klein’s expert witness practice had been permanently destroyed,” the suit states. 

UCLA’s defense? 

They’re arguing Klein got the boot for his “tone and manner.” Because apparently, it’s not about principle, it’s about hurt feelings. The trial’s expected to wrap up next week, and you can bet it’ll be a circus until then.

This case is a glaring example of how universities bend over backward to avoid being called racist, even when it means punishing a professor for refusing to treat students differently based on race, which by definition, is itself racist. 

Klein’s standing his ground, and win or lose, he’s exposing the absurdity of it all. 

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UCLA Med School sued for racial discrimination: aka racism

UCLA’s medical school is in a hot mess, and it’s about time. A federal class-action lawsuit just dropped, accusing the school and its officials of thumbing their noses at both California law and a Supreme Court ruling by using race as a factor in admissions. Racism much?

That’s right—despite affirmative action being illegal in the Golden State since 1996 and getting the boot nationwide in 2023, UCLA’s allegedly been playing fast and loose with racial preferences. And the evidence is overwhelming.

The lawsuit, filed Thursday in California’s Central District federal court, comes courtesy of Do No Harm, a group founded in 2022 to squash affirmative action in medicine. Students for Fair Admissions, the folks who took down Harvard’s race-based admissions at the Supreme Court, and Kelly Mahoney, a college grad who got the cold shoulder from UCLA’s David Geffen School of Medicine, worked to stop the medical school and UCLA officials from “engaging in intentional discrimination on the basis of race and ethnicity in the admissions process.” 

Good luck finding a clearer case of alleged wrongdoing and what one might consider to be racism where one group of folks with immutable characteristics is favored over another group, usually White people, particularly White men.

This mess kicked into high gear last year when the Washington Free Beacon blew the lid off UCLA’s admissions practices. The report zeroed in on Jennifer Lucero, the dean of admissions, who is accused of prioritizing race over merit. Things got spicy during a 2021 admissions meeting when a Black applicant with grades and test scores “far below the UCLA average” came up for review. Some committee members dared to question if this candidate was cut out for a top-tier medical school. Lucero’s response? She lost her excrement.

“Did you not know African-American women are dying at a higher rate than everybody else?” Lucero reportedly snapped at an admissions officer. The candidate’s subpar scores were irrelevant to the discussion. 

“We need people like this in the medical school,” she insisted. Translation: Forget qualifications, it’s all about the agenda.

California banned affirmative action in admissions nearly three decades ago, and the Supreme Court doubled down in 2023. This kind of race-based decision-making is supposed to be dead and buried, but under Lucero's watch, starting in 2020, it’s allegedly been business as usual. 

The results have been catastrophic. 

UCLA’s medical school plummeted from 6th to 18th in U.S. News & World Report’s rankings for medical research within three years of Lucero’s hiring. In some cohorts she admitted, over 50 percent of students flunked standardized tests in emergency medicine, family medicine, internal medicine, and pediatrics. We’re talking future doctors who can’t hack the basics in medical intervention.

Naturally, it gets worse. 

One professor recounted a student in the operating room who couldn’t identify a major artery when asked, then had the gall to berate the professor for calling her out. Another said students finishing clinical rotations were clueless about basic lab tests and, in some cases, couldn’t even present patients properly. This is what happens when you ditch merit for quotas.

Lucero, who moonlights as the vice chair for equity, diversity, and inclusion (D.E.I.) in UCLA’s anesthesiology department, allegedly led the charge to lower the bar for Black and Latino applicants while demanding near-perfect scores from Whites and Asians. One admissions committee member put it bluntly: The bar for underrepresented minorities is “as low as you could possibly imagine.” After all, who needs competency and grades when you have diversity, yadda yadda.

Here’s the kicker: Lucero’s too slick to openly admit it’s about race. Instead, she reportedly used proxies like zip codes to achieve the same discriminatory results. Sneaky, but not sneaky enough. The Free Beacon’s bombshell last May sparked an investigation by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) in March 2025. 

HHS’s Office of Civil Rights is now digging into whether Lucero’s admissions office holds Black and Hispanic applicants to a lower standard than their White and Asian peers. “HHS will not tolerate informal admissions practices and institutional policies that promote racial discrimination at HHS-funded institutions,” the agency told the outlet. “This investigation reflects the Administration’s commitment to honor the hard work, excellence, and individual achievement of all students and not just those of particular racial backgrounds.” 

By lowering requirements for any group of people clearly implies that they are considered to be inferior to those one expects the highest standards. This is what might be called 'quiet racism.'

But wait, there’s more. Just days before the lawsuit hit, The Free Beacon dropped another bombshell: UCLA is still doing it and thus is breaking the law.

On April 8, the medical school circulated a memo outlining “guiding principles for student representation on the admissions committee,” which includes third- and fourth-year medical students alongside faculty. The guidelines mandate considering race when picking student admissions officers. “The Chairs of the [admissions committee] will review all submitted recommendations to ensure representation from those who identify as BIPOC and LGBTQ+,” the memo reads, according to a screenshot obtained by The Free Beacon.

 

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Legal experts are floored. “Putting in writing, while under federal investigation for discrimination, that your faculty will ‘review’ the proposed slate of students included in a program ‘to ensure representation from those who identify as BIPOC and LBGTQ+’ is astonishingly brazen,” said Dan Morenoff, executive director of the American Civil Rights Project. “You have to wonder how it’s possible for no one either in the administration or with its outside counsel to even roughly read either the law or the room.” 

Let’s cut to the chase: This is as clear-cut as it gets. California law and federal law both say race-based admissions are illegal. UCLA’s medical school, led by Lucero, is allegedly flouting both while producing doctors who can’t pass basic tests or identify arteries and might even pass out at the sign of blood, for all we know.

The lawsuit needs to deliver a wake-up call—fire Lucero, recommit to merit, and stop this discriminatory nonsense. If not, UCLA’s not just failing its students; it’s failing every patient who’ll one day depend on them. Stay tuned, because this fight’s just getting started.

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UCLA Med School Doubles Down on Racial Discrimination While Feds Circle the Wagons

Folks, you can’t make this stuff up. The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) kicked off a civil rights investigation in March to see if UCLA’s David Geffen School of Medicine is playing fast and loose with racial discrimination in its admissions. 

And what does UCLA do? Less than two weeks later, they send out a memo that might as well have been titled, “How to Get Sued for Violating Federal Law in One Easy Step.”

According to the Washington Free Beacon, on April 8, UCLA’s medical school circulated a memo—complete with their fancy UCLA watermark—laying out “guiding principles for student representation on the admissions committee.” This committee, a mix of faculty and third- and fourth-year med students, got a crystal-clear directive: make sure race is front and center when picking who gets to play gatekeeper. The memo proudly declares, “The Chairs of the [admissions committee] will review all submitted recommendations to ensure representation from those who identify as BIPOC and LGBTQ+.” 

Because nothing screams “meritocracy” like checking boxes for skin color and identity politics.

This gem was sent to all second- and third-year med students, reportedly green-lighted by the Faculty Executive Committee, which oversees admissions policy. UCLA, apparently too busy to respond to requests for comment, seems to think this is a brilliant move while HHS is breathing down their neck, investigating whether they’re giving “unlawful preference to applicants based on their race.” 

Spoiler alert: When you’re picking committee members based on race, you’re not exactly whispering your discrimination—it’s more like shouting it from the rooftops. "Give us your gays, your dysphoric, your bisexuals, your two-spirited, your BIPOCS, longing to be doctors!"

Legal experts are practically choking on their coffee. Dan Morenoff, head of the American Civil Rights Project, called it “astonishingly brazen,” adding, “You have to wonder how it’s possible for no one either in the administration or with its outside counsel to even roughly read either the law or the room.” 

William Trachman, a former Education Department Office for Civil Rights official, went further, describing the setup as a “Russian nesting doll” of discrimination. He warned, “These committee members need to be prepared to be held personally liable for violations of Title VI.” Translation: UCLA’s got a lawsuit coming, and hopefully, it’s gonna sting.

This isn’t UCLA’s first rodeo with controversy. Whistleblowers—five admissions officials, no less—have already spilled the beans, alleging the school holds black and Latino applicants to a lower bar than white and Asian ones. The result? A flood of students flunking exams left and right, with up to a quarter of one class bombing three or more standardized tests. Leaked data backs this up, and insiders say admissions dean Jennifer Lucero goes full Rambo on anyone who dares question the qualifications of minority applicants. 

Oh, and she’s allegedly stacked the committee with folks who’ll rubber-stamp low grades and test scores. Classy.

Meanwhile, UCLA’s catching heat for a mandatory first-year course, “Structural Racism and Health Equity,” which has featured anti-Semitic speakers and, likely speaking from personal experience, called weight loss a “hopeless endeavor.” 

Even former Harvard Medical School dean Jeffrey Flier has slammed it. The school promised a curriculum review last year, but the course is still required, though one session mysteriously got canceled two days before it was set to happen. 

Associate dean Jason Napolitano sent a vague email on April 21: “I am writing to let you know that we will not be able to deliver the session on Environmental Effects on health that was scheduled for 1-3 PM on Wednesday.” No explanation given.

UCLA’s website doubles down, boasting about its “holistic review” process to “achieve … diversity” with “broad based selection criteria.” They claim the admissions committee “believes that the core values of diversity and inclusion are inseparable from our institutional goals.” 

Sure, but when your “holistic” process involves racial quotas and a memo that screams “we’re ignoring federal law,” maybe it’s time to rethink your life choices.

In a world where common sense hasn’t been completely obliterated, this would be a wake-up call. But at UCLA, it’s just another Tuesday. Stay tuned—this one’s gonna get messier than a pro-Hamasshole campus demonstration.

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Trump's task force to visit Columbia and 9 other schools to combat anti-Semitism

The Trump administration's task force slated to combat pro-Hamas Jew-hatred will be visiting Columbia University in New York City and nine other schools that have been supporting Hamas since they massacred around 1,200 Israelis and kidnapped 251 others on October 7, 2023, the DoJ announced Friday.

Leo Terrell, the leader of a special task force and a senior advisor to the assistant attorney general for civil rights, told 10 universities on Thursday that they might have broken federal laws. The Justice Department says these schools didn’t do enough to stop Jewish students and teachers from facing unfair treatment, which is against the law. Terrell explained that his team, made up of people from different government agencies, will talk to university bosses, affected students and workers, local police, and people in the community to learn more about what’s been happening. He’ll also look into whether the schools need to take any steps to fix the problem or punish anyone involved.

"The President, Attorney General Pamela Bondi, and the entire Administration are committed to ensuring that no one should feel unsafe or unwelcome on campus because of their religion," Terrell said. "The Task Force’s mandate is to bring the full force of the federal government to bear in our effort to eradicate Anti-Semitism, particularly in schools. These visits are just one of many steps this Administration is taking to deliver on that commitment."

The Justice Department launched the task force earlier this month "to root out anti-Semitic harassment in schools and on college campuses." It stems from an executive order President Donald Trump signed in January intended to take "forceful and unprecedented steps to combat anti-Semitism."

Four of the schools slated for a visit by the task force—Columbia, the University of California, Berkeley, Northwestern University, and the University of Minnesota—are also facing investigations from the Department of Education, which launched probes into "widespread anti-Semitic harassment" at the schools just two weeks into Trump’s second term. A fifth school, Portland State University, is also part of the investigation but isn’t included in the task force’s visits . . . yet.

Columbia, in particular, has faced ongoing anti-Semitic incidents. On Wednesday, two anti-Semitic student groups—Columbia University Apartheid Divest and Columbia’s Students for Justice in Palestine chapter—led a mob of student Jew haters who stormed a campus building at Columbia’s sister school, Barnard College and clashed with security guards, sending one to the hospital.

The group also held a dean captive, covered up security cameras, broke into an office, vandalized walls, and forced class cancellations. In other words, they committed acts of terrorism but were short of killing anyone at this point in time.

The scum-buckets got off scot-free after the cowardly enabling administration promised not to pursue disciplinary action, and even shielded them from police as they exited the building after occupying it for over six hours. They also agreed to continue negotiations the next day in a private meeting. 

It isn't know whether the administration plans to dry clean their keffiyehs, but it shouldn't surprise anyone if they did.

The student radicals were pressuring the Barnard administration to reverse its decision to expel two students who were involved in another anti-Semitic incident at Columbia. The pair were among a group of pro-Hamas agitators who rushed into an Israeli history class and targeted Jewish students with anti-Semitic flyers.

A week later, anti-Israel student radicals dumped cement into a campus building’s sewage system and apparently got away with the dastardly deed.

At Berkeley, a violent protest last year erupted over a scheduled speech by an Israeli lawyer, Ran Bar-Yoshafat, the Free Beacon reported. During the event, which had to be canceled due to the violence, mobs of anti-Semitic students choked a female student attendee, spit in another’s face, and shouted, "Jew, Jew, Jew."

During the anti-Israel protests at Northwestern last year, demonstrators, some of whom were from the Middle East, defaced the Star of David and chanted that Jews should "go back to Germany," even those that were born in the US, among other stupid anti-Semitic incidents. 

Northwestern is also giving free legal defense to a group of anti-Israel morons who orchestrated a blockade at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport, highlighting a perceived inconsistency in addressing discriminatory practices on campus.

At the University of Minnesota, anti-Israel student radicals stormed a campus building in October, used furniture to barricade exit doors, trapped staff inside, and demanded divestment from the Jewish state, but allow cool Israeli inventions to continue [see video].

Harvard University and the University of California, Los Angeles are also among the universities the task force is visiting.

Jewish students at Harvard accused the Ivy League university of becoming a "bastion of anti-Semitism" in a January 2024 lawsuit. 

The day after Trump’s inauguration, the school settled the lawsuit, agreeing to discipline students who target "Zionists" and adopt the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s definition of anti-Semitism. 

In November, anti-Israel/anti-Semitic protesters chanted, "Zionists are not welcome here," outside of Harvard’s Hillel when it hosted a speech by former Israel Defense Forces spokesman Ronen Manelis. The university also refused to cooperate with law enforcement investigating an assault on a Jewish student last September.

At UCLA, the school’s Students for Justice in Palestine chapter vandalized the home of a Jewish University of California regent on Feb. 5. The university has also faced accusations that it was allowing anti-Semitism to run rampant. In August, a federal judge blasted the university for standing around doing nothing as anti-Semites prevented Jewish students from accessing portions of campus.

The task force will also be visiting George Washington University, Johns Hopkins University, NYU, and the University of Southern California.

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Pro-Israel organization prepares list of pro-Hamassholes, hoping Trump will deport them

A pro-Israel organization, Betar, is compiling names of foreign students on visas in the US who spewed anti-Israel bile at campus protests — and is hoping President Trump will give the haters a one-way ticket back home.

So far, the group has about 30 names of students from countries like Jordan, Syria, Egypt, Canada, and the United Kingdom, currently studying at some of the nation's top universities, including Columbia, UPenn, Michigan, Syracuse, UCLA, The New School for Social Research, Carnegie Mellon, and George Washington University.

"We have started commencing lists of Jew-hating foreign nationals on visas who support Hamas," said Ross Glick, director of the US chapter of Betar.

The organization Betar is compiling lists of foreigners who have taken part in antisemitic protests on college campuses over the last year.

Betar has identified these individuals using a combination of facial recognition software and "relationship database technology" to sort out those who participated in antisemitic campus protests over the past year.

"One of our issues is processing power, there is just so much video to work through," Glick said.

Betar is already in touch with "prospective" Trump administration appointees in the Justice Department about the best way to act on those identified, Glick mentioned.

Among those on the list is Momodou Taal, a British national and PhD candidate in Africana studies at Cornell University, who was suspended twice for his involvement in two on-campus Palestinian protests, the most recent in September. University officials initially informed Taal that his F-1 visa might be revoked due to this incident, according to Newsweek. However, the Ivy League institution later reversed its decision.

Weeks after the Oct. 7 Hamas terror attack in Israel, Trump promised to deport foreign students who voiced support for radical Islamic terrorism. He repeated this promise to donors in May.

"When I am president we will not allow our colleges to be taken over by violent radicals. If you come from another country and try to bring jihadism or anti-Americanism or anti-Semitism to our campuses we will immediately deport you. You’ll be out of that school," Trump said at a rally that same month.

Said Glick: "We are strongly supportive of the Trump Administration’s plan to deport jihadis who seek to destroy America. Our campuses and our streets are filled with violent people who hate Jews and cannot coexist with Western society."

On Wednesday, Glick was on Capitol Hill, meeting with lawmakers including pro-Israel Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA). Glick was there to protest a Senate vote on whether to initiate an arms embargo against Israel.

Glick also met with aides to Republican Sens. Ted Cruz and James Lankford.

“They all gave me the thumbs up and told me how to follow up,” Glick said.

On the legislative side, Staten Island Representative Nicole Malliotakis presented a bill in February called the No Visas for Anti-Semitic Students Act. This bill aims to "revoke the visas of students who have engaged in antisemitic activities."

"Entering our country to attend one of our esteemed universities is a privilege, and foreign students who conduct antisemitic activity on our campuses should have their visas revoked," Malliotakis stated. "I'm pleased the Trump Administration plans to take immediate action to have these individuals removed."

Anti-Israel protest 4/30/24 by CUNY

Ross Glick, the leader of Betar US, has been actively meeting with lawmakers on Capitol Hill, including John Fetterman.

Betar doesn't avoid controversy.

The organization has been banned from using platforms like Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp because of a controversial jest about distributing beepers to members of a pro-Palestine group at the University of Pittsburgh. This was in reference to Israel's past use of beepers in a targeted attack against Hezbollah terrorists in Lebanon.

The group's name, Betar, comes from the Betar fortress, a significant site during the Jewish-Roman wars of the second century. Betar was established in 1923 by Ze'ev Jabotinsky, an influential early Zionist leader.

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UCLA prof sues over suspension for not treating Black students as inferior to White students

Professor Gordon Klein at UCLA is suing the school after they put him on involuntary leave and allegedly threatening to fire him because he refuses to grade Black students more lenient than Whites evidently believing both groups of students have the same intellectual abilities and should be treated equally. 

Klein has taught at UCLA for 40 years and is at the Anderson School of Management. He has taught 15 courses and has been a guest on CNBC and has been quoted by the Wall Street Journal.

“Recently, I was suspended from my job for refusing to treat my black students as lesser than their non-black peers,” wrote Klein in an op-ed on Bari Weiss’s “Common Sense” newsletter on Substack.

The dean of UCLA’s business school, who apparently believes that Blacks are intellectually inferior and should be given a break with grading, launched an investigation into Klein’s actions. He put him on leave and attempted to terminate him, according to Klein.

Although Klein was reinstated after three weeks, the highly publicized situation over the matter his negatively impacted on his consultancy practice and led him to lose out on lucrative expert witness contracts, which had comprised the bulk of his income, according to the suit.

Klein also alleges in the suit that he “suffered severe emotional distress, trauma and physical ailments” as a result of the school’s actions.

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This all began June 2, 2020 on the heels of the George Floyd case, just eight days after George Floyd died under the knee of then-Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin. 

Floyd had enough fentanyl in his system to kill a village of Hillary Clinton supporters. 

Klein was reinstated three weeks after being put on leave.

An unidentified unaware racist White student e-mailed Professor Klein and asked for a “no harm” final for Black students — meaning poor grades wouldn’t be counted — because the anonymous unaware racist White student believed that Black students would not do as well on the exam.

The email added, “[It’s] not a joint effort to get finals canceled for non-black students, but rather an ask that you exercise compassion and leniency with black students in our major.”

In the op-ed, Klein wrote that he was “shocked” by the proposal, which he found “deeply patronizing and offensive” to Black students.

Klein shot back with a sarcastic reply, which critics slammed as racist. Antonio Bernardo, the dean of the UCLA Anderson School of Management, allegedly tried to have Klein fired because he too believes that Black students need to be graded according to their skin color.

“Are there any students that may be of mixed parentages, such as half Black half-Asian?” Klein wrote in his reply. “What do you suggest I do with respect to them? A full concession or just half?

“Also, do you have any idea if any students are from Minneapolis? I assume that they are probably especially devastated as well. I am thinking that a White student from there might possibly be even more devastated by this, especially because some might think that they’re racist even if they are not.” 

The response, which was posted to social media, ignited a firestorm, and a petition demanding his termination garnered more than 20,000 signatures by people who don't see the racism in their beliefs.

Klein is alleging breach of contract and other claims and is suing the school for unspecified damages “not only to redress the wrongful conduct he has endured but also to protect academic freedom.”

UCLA did not respond to the media's request for comment and still sucks when it comes to wokeness. 

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UCLA professor faces 219-year prison sentence for sending missile data to China

Yi-Chi Shih, a  professor in electrical engineering and adjunct professor at UCLA, was found guilty last month by a Los Angeles jury of smuggling data chips with military applications to China.

He was convicted on 18 counts, including making an illegal export and multiple fraud charges.

Shih and another Chinese defendant, Kiet Ahn Mai, worked together to defraud an American semiconductor chip manufacturer. According to prosecutors, Mai posed as a potential customer to obtain chip designs from the unnamed company, then illegally sent the products to China.

In a statement, prosecutors said the chips were sent to a Chinese company where Shih was president. He paid for the scheme through a US-based bank account, which was funded through another company based in China.

The chips stolen in the scheme “are used in missiles, missile guidance systems, fighter jets, electronic warfare, electronic warfare countermeasures and radar applications,” according to the statement.

Shih was hoping the state of California would offer him sanctuary in the case, but that was not the case. The spy is going to for a long time, if not the rest of his life.

Industrial espionage is a key point of dispute between the US and China, an issue that has recently intensified as trade negotiations heat up between the two countries. In the past, the US has accused prominent Chinese companies, including Huawei, of stealing technology from American businesses.

Shih’s sentence will be determined at a later date, but it doesn't look good for him.

The UCLA electrical engineering program will miss Shih greatly. "All this over a bag of chips," a school spokesperson said.


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Washington Post urges ditching First Amendment

All colleges should censor 'racist and offensive' speech, an editorial in the Washington Post editorial read. This came in response to what they're calling a racist banana episode at the American University, which is currently under investigation by the FBI as a hate [aka 'thought'] crime. The rag is using this incident to justify getting rid of the First Amendment and stop people--racist pigs included--from saying whatever they want to say.

The editorial wants to "Make crystal clear that racist . . . speech is off limits." They want to punish and censor students if anyone thinks their speech or behavior is racist.

The term 'racist' therefore, will be determined by whoever says that what another student is saying is racist.

But worse than the ability to censor anyone you wish to shut up, the Constitution gives all of us, racists, humanitarians, good folk, bad folk and even vegetarians the right to say whatever they want. If you don't like what you hear, you can either leave or rebut the person. You do not have the right to censor that person unless they are calling for violence or creating an actual danger with their words.

And if anyone thinks that having their fragile feelings hurt is violence or danger, then they ought to shelter in place . . . forever.

It's always comical as much as it's irritating and hypocritical to hear arguments from "reputable" parakeet cage-liner newspapers to shut down free speech. In fact, my feelings are hurt by the Washington Post for them to think that I might be so racist as to even imply that people of my melanin level would promote racist dialogue or demonstrations. 

I say we censor them. 

I am not suggesting that hanging nooses on campus is not a crime--it's as offensive as hell--but I don't care for the idea that anyone should be given the power to shut down free speech.

The excuse the left gives is that hate speech isn't free speech.

Yes, hate speech is free speech, as much as it may suck to have to put up with it. But the best remedy for hate speech on campus is more speech--a better argument from the other side, not burning down a business because you're angry or getting paid by a Soros funded front to do it. 

And certainly not being stopped from speaking and stifling our core principles.

Eugene Volokh, a law professor at UCLA also wrote a Post editorial explaining why "making racist speech off limits" is a horrible idea.

"At public universities, it would violate the First Amendment; at private universities, it would violate many of the universities' stated commitments to open debate, as well as basic principles of academic freedom," Volokh wrote.

Speaking about being "crystal clear," the Supreme Court said that the government shall not discriminate based on viewpoint, even in limited public fora such as university open spaces.

Volokh also points out that even criticizing immigration could be deemed racist, or criticizing any religion. 

Who in the schools will or should decide what is or isn't racist?

The one thing that should scare all of us who appreciate the freedoms we have in this country is the notion of how one branch of government, the judiciary, is making decisions for us and unwriting much of the Constitution.

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Bill de Blasio: fascist, socialist, man about town

You may not like Donald Trump, perhaps you do, but in any case, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio is using his power as mayor to go after him by "reviewing" his city contracts in light of what he said about Mexican immigrants. 

This is what fascists do when they don't like what you say.

De Blasio, a socialist and an Al Sharpton fan club president, doesn't care if what he is doing goes against the First Amendment--it's just a piece of paper, as far as he's concerned and in spite of Trump's inarticulate words, he has every right to say what he did, and the mayor has no right to abuse his office by going after his businesses.

Even Alan Dershowitz, a liberal attorney and Harvard's most distinguished civil liberties law professor, is against de Blasio on this and said, "This is not the American Way. De Blasio seems to put himself directly, squarely in conflict with the First Amendment," he told the Daily Caller, in an interview. He called de Blasio's actions "plainly unconstitutional," and said that "He would have a fairly open and shut case if they deprived him of any contract."

Trump said of Mexican immigrants that they are "bringing drugs, they're bringing crime, they're rapists, and some, I assume, are good people."

De Blasio fired back: "Donald Trump's remarks were disgusting and offensive, and this hateful language has no place in our city." His press secretary then said that the city was reviewing all of Trump's contracts.

De Blasio's words almost echo Obama's statement that "The future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam."

In a 1996 Supreme Court ruling, they ruled overwhelmingly that it was unconstitutional to tie government contracts to a person's beliefs. This is exactly what de Blasio is doing, and not that different from what the IRS has done with conservatives.

UCLA law professor Eugene Volokh also told DCNF that "The statement by the Mayor is a real danger to public debate," saying that it would set dubious precedent for all future city contracts.

I hope Trump sees fit to fight de Blasio and go after him personally. Besides the fact that he is in violation of Trump's civil rights, the Mayor is the embodiment of all that is wrong with the left.

In fact, de Blasio is handling the City of New York in much the same way that Obama is handling ISIS: with great bluster and total impotence.




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The New Culture of Anti-Semitism

If you want to run for student government at UCLA, it's best you're anti-Semitic if you really want to win.

Sharona Schwartz, of The Blaze, reports that candidates planning to run for undergraduate student government are being asked to vow that they will refuse to go on a free or sponsored trip to Israel. According to the Daily Bruin, the UCLA newspaper, most of the candidates have signed the pledge.

The anti-Semitic group, Justice in Palestine and Jewish Voice for Peace, along with the Armenian Students' Association drafted the absurd pledge. What the Jewish Voice for Peace does not seem to realize is that the only way the Palestinians want peace for the Jews, is for them to no longer have voices--the dead cannot speak.

Take a guess whether or not the Muslim Students Association supported this bizarre measure.

The Students' Association Ethics statement requires council members to not go on trips to Israel that are paid for or even partially sponsored by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) the Hasbara Fellowships, and the Anti-Defamation League, the Daily Bruin stated. But students are free to travel to Israel with Palestinian mosque or church groups.

It's almost as if a large part of the United States is suffering from Stockholm Syndrome

For the full article go to The Blaze

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