A group of George Washington University students protesting the Hamas–Israel war stirred controversy when a social media video showed them calling for putting university administrators on the “gallows” and a “guillotine.” In a viral May 3 social media post recorded on Instagram, students are heard chanting, “Bracey, Bracey, we see you. You assault students, too. […]
An overwhelming number of House Republicans voted with Democrats to table Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene‘s (R-GA) motion to vacate Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) on Wednesday, leaving just 10 Republicans joining Greene in her efforts to remove the speaker. On Wednesday, 359 members of the House voted to table the motion to oust Johnson, with 43 […]
The mother of a North Carolina high school student stated she had “no other choice” but to sue her son’s school board, which suspended him for asking about the term “illegal alien.” Leah McGhee, the mother of a Central Davidson High School student, said her son’s English teacher assigned various vocabulary words in April, with one […]
Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) voted to table ally Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s (R-GA) ouster of House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), though for an unexpected reason. Gaetz said in a post on X that he “voted to table the motion for one principal reason – with a two seat majority in an election year I believe […]
Rep. Cori Bush (D-MO) compared pro-Palestinian campus demonstrations with the women’s suffrage movement. In a joint press conference with Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), Bush heaped praise on campus protesters across the country, comparing them to several major protest movements across history, including those for suffrage and against the Vietnam War. “Protest isn’t meant to be […]
Former President Donald Trump encouraged the House to move past the effort by his ally Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) to oust Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) late Wednesday afternoon. “I absolutely love Marjorie Taylor Greene. She’s got Spirit, she’s got Fight, and I believe she’ll be around, and on our side, for a long time […]
President Joe Biden signaled the United States will no longer provide Israel with bombs and artillery shells if Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu decides to launch a large-scale invasion of Rafah, Gaza, as part of his war on Hamas. “Civilians have been killed in Gaza as a consequence of those bombs and other ways in […]
Animal rights organization People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals announced a limited edition Halloween costume taking aim at Gov. Kristi Noem (R-SD) for admitting in her memoir, No Going Back, that she had shot and killed her dog Cricket. PETA’s “Cricket’s Revenge” costume features Noem holding a rifle while wearing a blood-splattered white collared […]
A United Nations watchdog group released a report accusing the U.N. Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees of stealing and hoarding aid intended for the Gaza Strip. The information comes from a chatroom run by former UNRWA employee Haitham al Sayyed, who is believed to have been fired from the organization in 2016 after […]
Public school leaders told Congress on Wednesday that teachers and administrators who have either been responsible for antisemitic activity or ineffectual in the face of it often do not get fired from their jobs. The leaders of three public school districts from across the country testified before a House Education and Workforce subcommittee in a […]
