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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.

Homeschooling has gone mainstream. In less than a generation, teaching children in the home has gone from a choice made by religious parents to the fastest-growing segment of educational choice in America.

"In the 2024-2025 school year, homeschooling continued to grow across the United States, increasing at an average rate of 5.4%," writes Angela Watson in the Johns Hopkins University School of Education's Homeschool Hub. "This is nearly three times the pre-pandemic homeschooling growth rate of around 2%," she added.

A third of the states that report homeschooling figures claim the highest homeschooling numbers ever, surpassing even numbers reached during the pandemic. That's the most surprising aspect of the boom in homeschooling.

"This isn't a pandemic hangover; it's a fundamental shift in how American families are thinking about education," comments Watson.
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"Five years after the pandemic's onset, there has been a substantial shift away from public schools and toward non-public options," Boston University's Joshua Goodman and Abigail Francis wrote last summer for Education Next.
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According to the Johns Hopkins Institute, using census data, about 2.8% of children were homeschooled in 2019. That number is now close to 6% and continues to climb.

Pew Research surveyed parents about why they pulled their child out of public school and decided to homeschool.

Newsweek:

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The most common reason cited was concern about the school environment, including safety, drug exposure, or negative peer pressure, with 83 percent of parents saying it was a factor. Dissatisfaction with academic instruction at schools was also a top concern, cited by 72 percent. About half of parents said the desire to provide religious instruction and to provide a nontraditional approach to their children’s education were factors.

Zero bongs. The imaginary Karen didn't mention Trump and wasn't wearing a MAGA hat or shirt..

so she proceeds to take a photo of me and the woman (I don't 'recall giving her permission so hope she doesn't post it, LOL)

1. Not one reporter has asked Dem Congress Critters why, in 2020-2024 they did not release the Epstein files.

2. Not one reporter has asked LIEden about his habit of showering with his minor daughter, his fetish with swimming nude with female USSS officers present, or his very public fetish with being handsy with and sniffing the hair of minor girls.

So yeah, the MSM have been shielding pedophiles and ephebophiles, just pedophiles and ephebophiles PCIntern would want shielded, because there is a magic golden D after their name.