Worth Knowing, Probably Not Quite Threadworthy 11/20

[SVPete]

Parents Take on Crying School Board Member Who Compared Turning Point USA to KKK

https://pjmedia.com/michaelcantrell/2025/11/18/parents-take-on-crying-school-board-member-who-compared-turning-point-usa-to-kkk-n4946155

Angry parents confronted a Virginia school board member who compared Turning Point USA—a conservative group founded by the late Charlie Kirk to engage young people—to the Ku Klux Klan in a video from an October 9 public meeting that just surfaced. ...

The school board member who made the ugly comparison, Allison Vick Spillman, blasted Albemarle County Public Schools in Virginia for daring to stay open-minded and allowing the TPUSA chapter at Western Albemarle High School to host a speaker discussing sex changes during a lunchtime meeting, according to a post she published on Facebook. Spillman raged over the school’s decision, saying she was “beyond livid” because she’s the “proud parent of a trans student.”
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Spillman opened the school board meeting with a string of remarks, claiming people “harassed” her before parents lit into her during the public comment portion.

... “Last week I made a Facebook post on my personal and private account. I expressed my concerns about a speaker invited to Western Albemarle High School and within hours, someone screenshot my post and shared it with media outlets and political organizations. What followed was a coordinated campaign of harassment and intimidation, and it was terrifying.”

Spillman then attempted to walk back her vile comparison, saying, “I did not intend to equate the WAS TPUSA member students with the KKK and I realize that that is how it was interpreted by many.” ...
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Kelly Coffin, the mother of a founding member of the TPUSA group, also addressed the board. “Last spring, I volunteered at a Turning Point meeting where guest speaker Isabelle Brown spoke to over 120 students on the sensitive topic of abortion. She was knowledgeable, engaging, and connected well with the students. I watched Western Albemarle students engage in civil discourse with the speaker and one another,” she recounted. ..."

“In stark contrast, a school board member has shown she believes free speech is for some, not for all, elevating the rights of certain students over others. Recently, this school board member likened my son, Turning Point members, and a scheduled guest speaker to the Ku Klux Klan,” Coffin added.

Michelle Karpovich, the TPUSA chapter’s faculty adviser, also confronted Spillman, but a crew of raucous left-wing protesters interrupted her—typical behavior from the side that insists only their views deserve oxygen. The disruption forced a recess, but Karpovich later finished her remarks.

“Equating a speaker who presents a widely held biology-based perspective on gender with a historically violent hate group recklessly misuses language,” Karpovich explained. “It undermines the values of respect, inclusivity, and open dialogue our schools must uphold. Beyond the hurtful nature of Miss Spillman’s words, her post shows contempt and prejudice toward constituents who hold differing views.”

[SVPete]

Judge Blocks Trump From Power-Washing Office Building Near White House

https://twitchy.com/brettt/2025/11/19/judge-orders-trump-not-to-power-wash-office-building-near-white-house-n2421878

Once again, we have to ask why we had an election a year ago to pick a president when judges can simply prevent him from doing anything they don't approve of? Sure, they've continually blocked President Donald Trump from deporting illegals, but this judge has blocked the Trump administration from power-washing or painting the Eisenhower Executive Office Building through the end of the year, allowing her more time to consider a lawsuit opposing the repainting plan. The lawsuit was filed by Cultural Heritage Partners PLLC, alongside the DC Preservation League.

WTF?! Is the dirt and grime on the Eisenhower Executive Office Building part of DC's "Cultural Heritage" needing "Preservation"? Was Trump planning to paint the building a shade of beige not approved by these DC "HOAs"?

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Former GOP staffer charged with fabricating anti-MAGA assault

A former congressional staffer is accused of staging a fake and self-targeted political attack involving mutilation and derogatory writing on her body.

Natalie Greene, 26, who once worked for Rep. Jeff Van Drew (R-N.J.), faces federal charges of conspiracy and making false statements to law enforcement. Each count carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison.

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Greene told police that her alleged attackers addressed her by name, one saying he would kill her if she made any noise and one saying he had a gun. One of the men also cut into her body with a sharp object, she told them, and one or more of the men wrote on her.

But investigators later learned that Greene visited a “scarification artist” and paid $500 in cash for lacerations in a specific pattern that she picked out, the complaint says. They also discovered the co-conspirator had Google searched “zip ties near me” days before the alleged attack, and black zip ties and duct tape were found in Greene’s car on the night of the incident.

[SVPete]

CAIR Paid Students To Vandalize College Campuses

https://hotair.com/david-strom/2025/11/20/cair-paid-students-to-vandalize-college-campuses-n3809078

Colleges and universities have used an extremely light touch when punishing students who vandalized, occupied, or even assaulted fellow students on campus. The pro-Hamas protests upended colleges and universities because these entitled brats hated Jews and loved destruction.

For that, few received any punishment at all.

But when violations of campus rules or laws were so egregious that students lost grants or scholarships or were kicked off campus, CAIR apparently decided to step in and help out.
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Anti-Israel agitators who spread disruption at US colleges and were punished by authorities were awarded checks for $1,000 by a Muslim nonprofit, The Post has learned.

The money was given to students who faced penalties for leading pro-Palestinian protests before and after the Hamas attack on Israel on October 7 2023, according to a bombshell report by the Network Contagion Research Institute (NCRI) and the Intelligent Advocacy Network (IAN).

The cash was awarded from a “Champions of Justice Fund,” set up by the California chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations’ (CAIR) as “institutional endorsement,” the report claims.

Well, $1000 is far less than any university's tuition, but it's far more than cafeteria lunch money.

[SVPete]

Former GOP staffer charged with fabricating anti-MAGA assault

Sounds like masochism-for-hire plus virtue-signaling self-aggrandizement plus superfluous smearing of violent Progs.

I wonder of this was her inspiration for the false police report:

Lesbian who alleged Nebraska hate crime charged with lying about attack

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/lesbian-who-alleged-nebraska-hate-crime-charged-lying-about-attack-flna956799

Updated at 7:58 p.m. ET: A Nebraska woman who claimed she was the victim of a horrific hate crime in July and subsequently charged with making false claims to police pleaded not guilty to the misdemeanor charge Tuesday.

Police in Lincoln, Neb., who spent weeks investigating the case, arrested Charlie Rogers Tuesday for making a false report. Lancaster County Attorney Joe Kelly said a judge issued the warrant for her arrest earlier Tuesday.

Charlie Rogers, Nebraska Lesbian Who Faked Anti-Gay Hate Crime, Sentenced To Jail

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/charlie-rogers-gay-sentenced_n_3117231

The Nebraska-based lesbian woman who shockingly staged an anti-gay hate crime has been sentenced to a week in jail.

The Lincoln Journal-Star reports that Charlie Rogers, 34, will also spend the next two years on probation and be required to undergo a psychological evaluation and complete 250 hours of community hours for lying to investigators in July 2012.

Lancaster County Judge Gale Pokorny called Rogers' original claim "an incredible and outrageous lie," according to the Omaha World-Herald. He also pointed to the "disservice" Rogers had committed to the area's lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community.

“For a long, long time to come, when a gay makes a legitimate complaint about unequal treatment or discrimination, there’s going to be a knee-jerk reaction among many: ‘Yeah, well, Charlie Rogers said the same thing,’” he is quoted by the Journal-Star as saying.

  How often do we post a news article from HuffPo?

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Lizzo with a direct message to Trump supporters: “If you voted MAGA, don’t play my music.”

In an era where celebrity voices increasingly influence public discourse, Lizzo—a Grammy-winning, chart-topping artist—has once again made headlines for her unapologetic stances. Recently, she issued a stern directive to supporters of former President Donald Trump: “If you voted MAGA, don’t play my music.” This statement not only underscores her political convictions but also raises broader questions about the role of artists in political activism and the impact of social media in shaping modern public discourse.

[SVPete]

Don't worry, Ms. head-neck-shoulder merger, I never have and won't.

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Trump not invited to Dick Cheney funeral

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-not-invited-dick-cheney-funeral-report

President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance were not invited to the funeral for former Vice President Dick Cheney, Fox News has confirmed.

Cheney's funeral is scheduled for mid-morning on Thursday at the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C. It is traditional for sitting U.S. presidents to attend funerals for past presidents and vice presidents, but Trump has had a uniquely poor relationship with Cheney's family in recent years. News of the president's exclusion was first reported by Axios.

Cheney's daughter, former Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., helped lead the House investigation into Trump's role in the storming of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

Both Liz and her father endorsed former Vice President Kamala Harris during the 2024 presidential campaign.

1. Like Trump would want to attend?

2. Fox News misspelled "Shamvestigation".