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Maher: ‘Racist’ for Dems to Be Soft on Crime to Cater to Black Voters

On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher said that it is racist for Democrats to think that they need to adopt soft-on-crime policies in order to cater to black voters, and “It’s kind of saying we think the black people are the criminals.”

The Atlantic Staff Writer Tim Alberta stated, “Traditionally, Bill, Democrats representing urban areas had taken these sort of soft-on-crime policies, in part because they were afraid of alienating a core constituency, black voters. What’s interesting is that, even as polling has shown, clearly, that more and more black voters have advocated for tougher policing policies, many of these same Democratic politicians have remained very reluctant to get tougher on crime. Why? Because they’re afraid of alienating a different demographic, white liberals in the suburbs.”

Maher responded, “It’s so racist. It’s kind of saying we think the black people are the criminals. Some are. Not most.”

Daily Wire co-founder and “Ben Shapiro Show” host Ben Shapiro then stated, “Implicitly, the argument that we have to be soft on crime in order to get black votes, like black people want crime.”

Maher then cut in to say, “It’s racist.” Which Shapiro agreed with.

Maher added that incarceration is “certainly part of the solution.” But he doesn’t agree with using the National Guard.

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Cornell excluded white evolutionary biologist in ‘diversity hire’ search, complaint alleges 

Cornell University is facing an Equal Employment Opportunity Commission investigation after allegations lodged against the Ivy League institution that faculty search committees deliberately excluded highly qualified white applicants.

America First Policy Institute first lodged the complaint in June, citing internal emails that spelled out how candidates were passed over as part of Cornell’s “diversity hire” process. In mid-July, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission launched an inquiry into the matter.

In late July, evolutionary biologist Colin Wright joined the battle against Cornell, stating he applied there in 2020 but now understands, thanks to those whistleblower emails, he never stood a chance because he is white. 

Wright’s complaint is just the latest headache for Cornell, which saw more than $1 billion in federal funding frozen by the Trump Administration in April in part due to allegations of civil rights violations. 

The administration is currently in negotiations with Cornell to resolve the allegations. Cornell has publicly denied the allegations.

“The EEOC has been extraordinarily vigilant and dedicated to addressing discrimination, and we are grateful for their seriousness in this matter,” said Leigh Ann O’Neill, chief of staff at AFPI’s Center for Litigation.

“Cornell, by contrast, has been stonewalling,” she told The College Fix on Tuesday. “We submitted our client’s demand on August 1, and here we are on September 9 with no accountability whatsoever from the university.” 

Wright’s administrative EEOC complaint is the first step before he can file a lawsuit.

 ‘I was denied the chance to compete’

“America First Policy Institute released internal Cornell emails showing the university conducted an effort to recruit what the search committee referred to as a ‘diversity hire.’ One committee member described the process bluntly: ‘What we should be doing is inviting one person whom we have identified as being somebody that we would like to join our department and not have that person in competition with others,’” Wright wrote in a July 30 Wall Street Journal op-ed.

“That ‘somebody,’ who is black, was selected not because of research excellence, but because of race. I was denied the chance to compete—so were other academics who might have been qualified,” Wright wrote.

He argued the search committee violated Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, which “prohibits employment discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex and national origin,” as per the EEOC’s website.

Wright, a fellow at the Manhattan Institute, did not respond to multiple requests from The College Fix seeking comment.

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FBI Prevents Potential Mass Shooting at a Preschool

FBI Director Kash Patel said the FBI prevented a potential mass shooting at a preschool after agents arrested a man who allegedly posted threatening messages online. 

Writing under the username “CommentatorsHateMe,” Zachary Charles Newell allegedly posted a comment on YouTube indicating his intention to “shoot up” a preschool and kill black children.

According to the complaint, that was not the only instance of Newell allegedly writing threatening and racist posts.

“The comments posted by this suspect were violent, hateful and shocking to the conscience,” Carteret County Sheriff Asa Buck told Fox News Digital in a statement. “Our office worked swiftly to take this subject into custody and worked with the [FBI] to subsequently have him placed into federal custody. … Suspects who make these types of comments will be dealt with as severely as the law allows.”

Google LLC reported the threats to the FBI’s National Threat Operations Center on Aug. 31, having linked the “CommentatorsHateMe” account to an email registered to Newell, with associated phone numbers and an address.

Law enforcement traced the account’s IP address to Charter Communications in Newport, and on Aug. 31, Carteret County Sheriff’s Office deputies confronted Newell at his home. 

Newell allegedly admitted to making the YouTube comment, according to the complaint. 

A search warrant was executed at his home, and he was initially charged in state court with communicating a threat of mass violence on educational property.

The Carteret County Sheriff’s Office told Fox News Digital Newell was given a $30,000 bond by a state magistrate, where he was able to post bond. 

Later that evening, the sheriff’s office worked with the FBI to take him into federal custody on federal charges. Additional charges will be forthcoming by the FBI. (Fox News Digital)

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How colleges hide quotas, California’s deadly economic model and other commentary

Campus watch: How colleges hide quotas

“The demographic makeup of the class of 2028” — the first admitted after the Supreme Court’s racial-preferences ban — “suggests that at least some colleges were playing games rather than obeying the Court’s edict,” reports Naomi Schaefer Riley at Commentary.

At schools like Princeton, Harvard and Yale, the racial make-up changed only slightly or not at all, likely because they used proxies for race, such as information about the challenges applicants faced based on their schools and neighborhoods — info admissions offices get via Landscape, a tool provided by the College Board, the nonprofit that runs the SATs and AP exams.

“The College Board is colluding in the creation of a complex new system for schools to identify the race of a student without explicitly asking for it.” Universities need to be held “to account.” 

“Lots of well-intentioned political leaders . . . think it’s a great idea” to move city elections to “coincide with the year we pick presidential candidates,” but “I don’t,” warns New York magazine’s Errol Louis.

“National political dynamics would inevitably cause vital city issues unique to New York to get swallowed, distorted, or ignored.” “Imagine trying to help voters focus on strictly local matters . . . while national candidates are spending hundreds of millions of dollars” on “ads for and against sweeping” national proposals. This is exactly why city elections got moved to odd-numbered years in the first place.

“New York is better off deciding local issues without a lot of political noise coming from — or intended for — other places.”

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New Details Suggest the California ‘FireAid’ Fundraiser Scandal is Even Worse Than People Thought

After the wildfires of California earlier this year, leaders in the state joined with a number of Hollywood celebrities and famous musicians and did a fundraiser event called ‘FireAid’ that managed to raise $100 million which they claimed would go directly to the victims.

Several weeks ago, an independent journalist did a deep dive into the funds and found that none of the victims had seen a dime of the money. Based on her research, she found that the money had gone to a number of non-profit organizations.

Now, the Washington Free Beacon has done an even deeper dive into the issue and it looks even worse. Some of the non-profits that received this money have absolutely nothing to do with the issue of fire recovery or even base their assistance on race.

From the Free Beacon:

FireAid announced in February that it would distribute the money it raised “equitably,” a promise it appears to have kept. Greenline Housing Foundation, for instance, received funds from a $4.8 million pool dedicated to health and housing. It noted on its website that no whites need apply.

“In order to qualify for a grant through Greenline Housing Foundation, applicants must be a Black or Hispanic person,” the group stated…

The same is true for the Black Freedom Fund, a Black Lives Matter-era nonprofit dedicated to fighting “systemic racism” and promoting “Black power-building.” The organization—which received money from a $7.6 million pool dedicated to “disaster relief”—stated in a 2023 grant proposal document that it would only assist groups “led and controlled by Black people” and “primarily serving Black people.”

My Tribe Rise, which also received cash from that pool, has a similar mission. Founded in 2019, the organization states that its mission is “to take the stigma out of gangs and to educate people about the positive changes that are possible when people come together to end violence and meet the needs of Black and Brown communities.”

Other groups that have received money through FireAid offer assistance to illegal aliens within California.

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Democrat Official in Virginia Blames Black Republican Winsome Sears for Racist Sign a Liberal Held at Her Event

As the Gateway Pundit reported last week, a liberal white woman in Virginia held up a racist sign to protest black Republican Winsome Earle-Sears.

Sears is the current Lt. Governor of Virginia, who is running for governor against Democrat Abigail Spanberger.

Ever since this incident, Democrats have been trying to do damage control, but the response below is truly something to behold.

This Twitter/X post is from Mark Broklawski, the vice chair of the Virginia Democrat Party.

It reads:

What happened in Arlington wasn’t just about a meeting. It was about the climate Winsome Sears is creating, one where contempt is currency and neighbors are turned against each other.

@SpanbergerForVA is running on something stronger: a Virginia where we solve problems, not invent enemies.

What happened in Arlington wasn’t just about a meeting. It was about the climate Winsome Sears is creating, one where contempt is currency and neighbors are turned against each other.@SpanbergerForVA is running on something stronger: a Virginia where we solve problems, not…

— Marc Broklawski (@marcbroklawski) August 23, 2025

People called this out.

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Attempt By Antifa Thugs to Start a Major Riot Between Black and Jewish Brooklyn Neighbors Completely Blows Up In Their Faces

A heartwarming scene unfolded in Brooklyn last week as a sinister plan cracked up by a group of Antifa thugs backfired spectacularly.

As Townhall reported, a group of these communists invaded a Brooklyn neighborhood of Crown Heights to needle Black residents into assaulting Jewish residents last Wednesday.

The incident occurred at an annual vigil commemorating the 1991 death of Gavin Catto, a seven-year-old Black child killed by a Hasidic Jewish driver in a car accident.

It also followed a mass shooting that resulted in three deaths.

Sensing an opportunity, Antifa thugs went through with a plan they hoped would end in bloodshed. They shouted vulgar anti-Semitic rhetoric, thinking the Black residents would be dumb enough to attack their Jewish neighbors upon hearing such language.

Townhall noted that Antifa wanted to take advantage of the historical racial and ethnic tensions between Black and Hasidic Jewish communities to incite an all-out brawl.

But as the video footage below shows, they received a nasty surprise instead.

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Rising GOP Star Winsome Earle-Sears Responds to Vile Racist Sign Held by Liberal White Woman

Winsome Earle-Sears is the current Lieutenant Governor of Virginia and the Republican candidate for Governor of Virginia in the upcoming election.

Sears has vocally opposed the idea of boys in girls’ locker rooms and the other gender related nonsense that has been embraced by the left in recent years.

The Gateway Pundit reported that during a political event this week, a liberal white woman held up a vile sign in protest of Sears.

The sign read:

Hey Winsome
If Trans Can’t Share
Your Bathroom
Then Blacks Can’t Share
My Water Fountain

Sears shared her disgust following the incident and called out her Democrat opponent, Abigail Spanberger.

“I’m disgusted, but not surprised.”

“This is the ‘tolerant’ left Abigail Spanberger defends.”

“I’m the sitting Lieutenant Governor, second in command in the former Capitol of the confederate states. I’m an immigrant, a Marine, and above all, a human being. There is no place for this disgusting hatred in our Commonwealth. Anyone who doesn’t condemn this sign is complicit in approving it.”

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TV Anchor Sues Boston CBS Affiliate, Claims White Employees Targeted by Corporate DEI Policies

A veteran television anchor for Boston, Massachusetts’ CBS affiliate filed a lawsuit claiming she was demoted to fulfill corporate diversity quotas.

Katherine Merrill Dunham, who is white, claimed that WBZ-TV “exploited” diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) policies imposed by CBS and Paramount Global, taking “career-ending action” against her.

The lawsuit stated that CBS has said “diversity, equity and inclusion standards need to be a top priority for leadership in every corner.” The suit also cited CBS executives that claimed WBZ-TV was “too White” and had the “least diverse station for on air talent,” and the “Whitest of all their stations.”

In September 2023, WBZ hired black meteorologist Jason Mikell, and Zack Green, a white meteorologist, was let go.

“On February 22, 2024, Defendant Mikell made an inappropriate sexual innuendo about Ms. Merrill on air. Specifically, he implied that Ms. Merrill and her co-anchor had sexual relations at a gazebo. Mikell was not disciplined for his sexually charged remark,” the lawsuit stated.

Fox News continued:

WBZ, CBS and Paramount took no action to investigate Merrill’s complaint about Mikell’s aggressive confrontation and threatening treatment of her, nor did they investigate the previous complaints lodged by Merrill’s colleagues about Mikell’s “sexually charged” comment on air about Merrill, according to the complaint that was obtained by Fox News Digital.

However, Merrill was informed “that an investigation was being conducted into allegations that she treated coworkers differently because of their race.”

“Merrill vehemently challenged the validity of Defendant Mikell’s allegations and denied (and denies) any of her actions, inactions, or comments were as described or motivated by overt racism or unconscious bias,” the complaint read. “Based on the falsity and/or and misleading nature of Defendant Mikell’s allegations, Defendant Mikell acted with malice and/or improper motive in lodging a complaint against Ms. Merrill.”

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“Whites Can’t Invent Anything!” – Joy Reid Says White People Stole Ideas and Inventions From Blacks

Former MSNBC host Joy Reid went on another hate-filled rant and trashed white people during her chat with far-left ‘journalist’ Wajahat Ali.

Reid was fired as the host of MSNBC’s “The ReidOut” in February.

Joy Reid said white people can’t invent anything so they had to steal ideas from blacks.

This is just laughable.

“We black folk gave y’all country music, hip-hop, R&B, jazz, rock and roll. They couldn’t even invent that,” Joy Reid said.

“But they have to call a white man “The King” because they couldn’t make rock and roll,” Joy Reid said attacking Elvis.

“So they have to stamp “The King” on a man whose main song was stolen from an overweight black woman,” she said of Elvis’s hit “Hound Dog.”

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