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[SVPete]

Mamdani Restricts ‘Gifted’ Student Program Despite Parental Advocate Objections

https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2026/01/29/mamdani-restricts-gifted-student-program-despite-parental-advocate-objections-n4948903

New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani, who received a pricey, private school education, is now looking to restrict a program for gifted and talented students that helps low income children from kindergarten onwards break the cycle of mediocre public education.

Commie Mamdani plans to eliminate the program at the kindergarten level and move the lowest grade entry for it up to third grade, the UK Daily Mail reported. This will prevent more than 2,000 students from accessing the special program at the earliest educational level. Parental advocacy group Defending Education, which previously helped win a legal case to keep the gifted and talented program in place, is condemning the move.
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The UK outlet also stated that the program is often a chance for racial minorities "to excel" beyond what their parents might afford to pay for their education, making it even more ironic that woke Mamdani is restricting it. Naturally, Mamdani tried to pretend that his contraction of the gifted and talented program is inspired by the noble desire for equality, as he asserted he wants quality education for everyone. As leftists often do, he is hiding a downgrade of standards and elimination of a meritocratic program as "equality" when he really just means "all public school students should receive the same lousy education."

GATE programs are objects of hatred for many Progs, because the programs recognize that people are not intellectually homogeneous and foster/reward inequality.

[SVPete]

House Ethics panel finds 'substantial evidence' that supports fraud charges against Florida Democrat

https://justthenews.com/government/congress/house-ethics-panel-finds-substantial-evidence-fraud-charges-against-florida

AHouse Ethics subcommittee on Thursday published a report that said it found "substantial evidence" that supported federal fraud charges against Florida Democratic Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick.

Cherfilus-McCormick was indicted by a grand jury in November for allegedly stealing $5 million from FEMA, laundering the proceeds, and using them to fund her 2021 congressional campaign. The lawmaker has denied any wrongdoing.

The House Ethics investigative subcommittee said it found evidence of alleged violations of campaign finance laws and regulations; criminal laws; the Ethics in Government Act; the Code of Ethics for Government Service; and House rules.

“The ISC’s investigation has revealed substantial evidence of conduct consistent with the allegations in the indictment, as well as more extensive misconduct as laid out in the following Statement of Facts in Support of Alleged Violations related to violations of federal laws and regulations, as well as ethical standards,” the committee's Statement of Facts reads.

Has the Race Card been deployed by her and her peeps yet?

[SVPete]

Ghislaine Maxwell claims over two dozen alleged Epstein accomplices were never prosecuted

https://justthenews.com/government/courts-law/ghislaine-maxwell-claims-over-two-dozen-alleged-epstein-accomplices-were

Former Jeffrey Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell claimed in recent court filings that over two dozen Epstein accomplices were never brought to trial, including 25 men who allegedly made “secret settlements” with accusers.
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Maxwell did not name the alleged accomplices or co-conspirators but said the other four people were mentioned in a non-prosecution agreement and the sex-trafficking indictment Epstein faced before he died and were never charged.

“New evidence reveals that there were 25 men with which the plaintiff lawyers reached secret settlements – that could equally be considered as co-conspirators,” Maxwell wrote, according to the New York Post. “If the jury had heard of the new evidence of the collusion between the plaintiff’s lawyers and the government to conceal evidence and the prosecutorial misconduct, they would not have convicted."

I take Maxwell's claim with a block of salt, but see it as worth investigating and exposing any slimeballs or criminals. Her claim could have DU-folk ing, as they want it to be true and believe Trump could be exposed as a pedophile.

[SVPete]

DOJ joins suit alleging UCLA med school discriminated against white, Asian-American applicants

https://justthenews.com/government/courts-law/doj-joins-suit-alleging-ucla-med-school-discriminated-against-white-asian

The Trump administration is seeking to join a lawsuit filed in federal court alleging UCLA’s David Geffen School of Medicine illegally considers race in its admission process.

The administration filed the related documents Wednesday in California’s Central District, according to The Los Angeles Times.

The filing was made by the Trump Justice Department and alleges the school uses a “systemically racist approach” to admissions that privileges black and latino applicants over those who are white and Asian-American.

Agency lawyers also allege the school engages in “racial balancing," an attempt to create a student body that is racially reflective of California. In addition, they argued such an effort is in violation of the U.S. Constitution’s Equal Protection Clause and a 2023 Supreme Court decision that banned race-based affirmative action policies in college admissions.

I do not care if the doctors, nurses, and health technicians caring for me are white, east Asian, black, or chartreuse Venusian. I just want good competent medical care.

[SVPete]

US Cancer Survival Has Reached a Milestone High of 70%

https://www.sciencealert.com/us-cancer-survival-has-reached-a-milestone-high-of-70

Cancer may be an inevitability of cell division and, therefore, life. But in the US, great progress has been made fighting this dreaded disease, achieving a milestone five-year survival rate of 70 percent for cancer cases diagnosed between 2015 and 2021.

The most significant survival gains were in cases of advanced or fatal cancer.

Earlier detection, improved screening and treatments, and reductions in smoking prevalence have helped avert 4.8 million cancer deaths in the US between 1991 and 2023, giving 3,256,800 men and 1,555,300 women a new lease on life.

These findings, by researchers at the American Cancer Society (ACS), were recently published in Cancer Statistics 2026.

[SVPete]

Whistleblower Exposes LA Metro's Plan to Sideline Buses Advertising 'Melania' Documentary

https://redstate.com/bobhoge/2026/01/29/whistleblower-gets-la-metro-to-admit-yeah-were-minimizing-exposure-for-buses-with-melania-ads-n2198639

All right, I’ll get the disclosure part out of the way right at the start: this story involves my wife, Los Angeles County GOP Chair Roxanne Hoge.

She got a tip on Wednesday that up to one hundred LA Metro buses featuring ads for the Melania movie were being kept out of service for the weekend. Her post about the situation went viral, amassing over 100,000 views:
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LA Metro, of course, denied that anything untoward was taking place in several responses that were at odds with each other.
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On Thursday, however, they claimed to the California Post that they had quietly altered the routes of a number of buses due to “vandalism.” Right.
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No word on what backwater routes the buses were assigned to.

Notice here, meanwhile, that they say they noticed vandalism at “city bus stops.” Not the buses themselves. Interesting.
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Now stop and think for a second: does anyone really imagine that if buses were driving around with ads for one of Michelle Obama’s self-pitying tomes or bitter podcasts and were vandalized, that LA Metro would take steps to minimize their exposure? If so, I’ve got a bridge to sell you.

I guess Progs are afraid the movie - and its subject - will be liked and successful.

[SVPete]

North Carolina grandfather accused of drugging ice cream indicted on new charges

https://www.wbtv.com/2026/01/27/north-carolina-grandfather-accused-drugging-ice-cream-indicted-new-charges/

NEW HANOVER COUNTY, N.C. (WBTV) - A former chair of a county elections board in eastern North Carolina was recently indicted on three new charges after allegedly drugging his granddaughter’s and her friend’s ice cream.

James Yokeley Jr. was additionally charged on Jan. 20 with intentional child abuse – serious physical injury and two counts of unlawful distribution of food or beverage.

Yokeley was arrested in August after reportedly flagging down an officer at a Sheetz gas station in Wilmington. Officers said that Yokeley told them his granddaughter and her friend found hard objects in their ice cream, which was ordered at the Dairy Queen on Oleander Drive.

According to WBTV sister station WECT, the pills tested positive for the psychedelic drug MDMA. The pills also reportedly tested positive for cocaine.

Guess the political party.

[DefiantSix]

Whistleblower Exposes LA Metro's Plan to Sideline Buses Advertising 'Melania' Documentary

...I guess Progs are afraid the movie - and its subject - will be liked and successful.

Leftist scum are nothing if not petty and spiteful, and in their "middle school clique" mentality, Melania makes them look bad just by existing, and this just can't be allowed to stand without a response from them.

[SVPete]

West Coast, Messed Coast™ — Finally, a Little Justice for Victims of Seattle's 'Summer of Love'

https://pjmedia.com/victoria-taft/2026/01/30/wcmc-n4948930

People have long forgotten that there was a body count from the so-called “Summer of Love” in Antifa and Black Lives Matter’s takeover of the so-called CHOP occupation zone in Seattle in 2020. Two people were murdered, and two others were wounded inside the CHAZ/CHOP Zone.

Seattle officials, including the clueless mayor, Jenny Durkan, who labeled the George Floyd riots and the takeover of part of her city the “Summer of Love,” allowed the communist radicals to take over a local park and several blocks. Two people were murdered, and others were shot inside this so-called CHOP zone, which was blessed by the city’s oppressives (not progressives).

Now, city taxpayers will pay for their leaders’ stupidity.

The City of Seattle has been found liable for the death of a 16-year-old boy who was murdered by the tolerant left as he visited CHOP Zone (rebranded from CHAZ) in June of 2020. His 14-year-old companion was critically wounded in the shooting.

A Seattle jury awarded the family of a teen who was shot and killed $30-million after finding that the city was negligent in how it handled the weeks-long protest zone.

Mayor Frey Brain's and Timmy's staffs would be wise to brief them on this case and verdict. Their usual Etch-A-Sketch might not suffice to explain the potential consequences, though.

[SVPete]

Meta Blocks Leftists from Sharing ‘ICE List’ Attempting to Expose Identity of Federal Agents

https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2026/01/29/meta-blocks-leftists-from-sharing-ice-list-exposing-identities-of-federal-agents/

Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta has implemented restrictions preventing users on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads from sharing links to the “ICE List” database that purports to contain identifying information of thousands of ICE agents, the company confirmed this week.

Politico reports that Meta has implemented restrictions preventing users on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads from sharing links to a database that purports to contain identifying information of thousands of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents, the company confirmed this week. The social media giant cited privacy violations as the basis for blocking access to the website known as “ICE List.”

Users attempting to share the database on Facebook as of Tuesday afternoon received warnings that their posts violated the platform’s community standards. Those trying to share the links on Instagram and Threads encountered messages indicating their posts failed to upload. The blocking mechanism effectively prevents the spread of the website across Meta’s family of social media applications.

Meta spokesperson Andy Stone referenced the company’s community standards regarding privacy violations, which explicitly prohibit the sharing or soliciting of personally identifiable information. The policy forms the foundation of Meta’s decision to restrict access to the database across its platforms.

This should PO ICE-Hating Proggies,   .

[RonE]

Mamdani Restricts ‘Gifted’ Student Program Despite Parental Advocate Objections

What I've never been able to grasp is how Mamdani and his ilk could twist their own morality into support of this. It's not like they are resisting a new start-up program. They want to dismantle what already exists.

Mamdani tried to pretend that his contraction of the gifted and talented program is inspired by the noble desire for equality,

He doesn't believe this for a second.

Of course, this is just the beginning of Mamdani's list of things to come.
Since NYC has enough stupid,  short-sighted, self-centered idiots to vote this guy in, it's deserving. It's a shame it comes at the expense of kids.