Worth Knowing, Probably Not Quite Threadworthy 3/09

[SVPete]

NJ college revises policy after it banned funds to Christian Club

https://www.thecollegefix.com/nj-college-revises-policy-after-it-banned-funds-to-christian-club/

Atlantic Cape Community College recently changed a student club policy that banned funding for religious and political groups after a legal organization called it a violation of students’ First Amendment rights.

The New Jersey public college’s Board of Trustees voted to revise the policy last week, removing the language that prohibited funding for “religious and political” student groups on campus, according to the college website.

The revised policy, adopted Feb. 25, states that all official student organizations may request funding for activities through the Student Government Association.

It also specifies how “religious or political organizations” may use the SGA funds, including for “[e]ducational programs, lectures, panels, or discussions,” guest speakers, and events that are “nonpartisan, educational in nature, and approved in advance pursuant to College and SGA procedures.”

Additionally, the policy outlines what student groups may not use funding for: “[r]eligious worship, devotional exercises, or religious services,” “[p]olitical campaign activities,” and any activities that “exclude participation based on a protected class.”

Previously, the policy stated: “Religious and political groups have the right to organize and be recognized by the SGA. They will have the right to use the name of Atlantic Cape and its facilities but will not receive funds to run their clubs.”

This change benefits any/every religious or political group. Cynical me doesn't believe the old policy was enforced against all religious or political groups consistently, though I have no evidence of this, so this change may have "just" leveled the playing field.

[SVPete]

BREAKING: Bondi Officially Charges Muslim Terrorists Who Tried to Bomb NYC Protest

https://pjmedia.com/sarah-anderson/2026/03/09/breaking-bondi-officially-charges-muslim-terrorists-who-tried-to-bombed-nyc-protest-n4950441

"We have charged the two alleged ISIS-inspired terrorists who attempted to bomb a protest in New York City," Attorney General Pam Bondi posted on X on Monday afternoon. "We will not allow ISIS’s poisonous, anti-American ideology to threaten this nation. Our law enforcement officers will remain vigilant."

The charges include providing material support to a terrorist organization and using a weapon of mass destruction.

In case you missed it, on Saturday, March 7, an anti-Islam protest gathered outside Gracie Mansion — the official residence of New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani — when two homemade improvised explosive devices (IEDs) were thrown toward the protesters.

The devices contained triacetone triperoxide or TATP, a volatile homemade explosive often called "mother of Satan," as well as nuts, bolts, and screws. They were ignited but failed to fully detonate, creating smoke and chaos. Thankfully, no one was injured. A third device was later found near a vehicle the alleged terrorists drove, sparking evacuations at nearby apartment buildings.

Given how careful Bondi has been to have iron-clad cases before prosecuting, the FBI must have 50 billion videos of these wannabe terrorists. This also over-trumps,  , any effort by NYC DAs or Mamdani to play catch-and-release and/or under-charging games.

[SVPete]

Trump Denies Biden’s Executive Privilege Request. Here's Why it’s Biden’s Own Fault.

https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2026/03/09/trump-denies-bidens-executive-privilege-request-and-its-bidens-fault-n4950439

President Donald Trump has rejected Joe Biden’s attempt to invoke executive privilege over documents the Senate is seeking as part of multiple investigations into Biden’s controversial presidency. Trump concluded that shielding the records “is not in the best interests of the United States,” clearing the way for the documents to be turned over to lawmakers conducting the investigations.

On Monday, White House counsel David Warrington sent a letter to the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) directing it to hand over the disputed records to Congress — and the justification Trump's team offered was as pointed as it was deliberate.

"The abuse of the autopen that took place during the Biden Presidency, and the extraordinary efforts to shield President Biden's diminished faculties from the public, must be subject to a full accounting to ensure nothing similar ever happens again," Warrington wrote.

The fight traces back to December 10, when NARA notified the White House that Biden had asserted executive privilege over materials sought in four separate Senate probes. Biden had formally invoked that protection in two letters to NARA dated October 22 and December 3. Warrington's response was blunt: the assertion "is not justified."
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And the best part? Biden himself set the precedent for this.

Only a sitting president can assert executive privilege, and in 2021, Biden denied Trump’s request to assert executive privilege over White House documents, thus allowing the partisan J6 Committee to use them for their bogus investigation. Trump sued to stop the disclosure, arguing that the committee had no legitimate need for many of the documents, which he said were unrelated to the Capitol riot.

See ya and raise ya, LIEden.

[Ralph Wiggum]

Former White Sox Pitcher Is Suing His Team over COVID-19 Vaccine requirement

It's been six years since the COVID pandemic revealed a lot about so-called "experts," and little of it was good. One of the biggest revelations revolved around the COVID vaccine. For years, the Democrats who never missed a chance to say abortion should be between a woman and her doctor were suddenly gung-ho about the government telling women (and everyone else) what to do with their bodies.

President Joe Biden tried to use OSHA to institute a national COVID vaccine mandate, and many people — including members of our military — lost their jobs rather than take a vaccine they didn't want. And now that we're seeing the complications and side effects of the vaccine come to fruition, there has to be a reckoning.

For one former Major League Baseball pitcher, Isaiah Carranza, that reckoning may come in the form of a lawsuit against the Chicago White Sox over their vaccine mandate. Carranza alleges the team's mandate left him with a chronic, career-ending autonomic nervous system disorder. Carranza says he was, at the time, a minor league player who had no choice but to get the vaccine or lose his job, a mandate that did not apply to the major league players.

A lawsuit has been brought against the Chicago White Sox for coercing a player into getting a COVID-19 vaccine that allegedly caused a permanent autonomic nervous system disorder. Peter Law Group is representing Isaiah Carranza in the case and describes a “two-tier justice” system in which minor league players were subjected to a COVID-19 vaccine mandate while major league players were not. Major league players had union protection, while the minor league players were allegedly coerced into getting the vaccine and didn’t have the financial security to speak up and risk losing their jobs.

“Major League Baseball and the Chicago White Sox imposed a mandatory medical procedure on a young pitcher, then turned their backs when that procedure destroyed his health and ended his career,” said John M. Liston, the plaintiff’s co-counsel in the case. “The ADA exists precisely to prevent powerful employers from sacrificing disabled workers to institutional convenience. This case is about accountability for a system that coerced compliance, denied the injury, and discriminated against an injured athlete instead of providing the accommodations and protection the law requires.”

The case reflects the criticisms people had during the rollout of the COVID-19 vaccine when employers and institutions mandated the vaccine for employees. While there were no sweeping federal mandates on citizens, people complied with employer mandates because they did not feel financially stable enough to risk losing their jobs.

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/amy-curtis/2026/03/09/former-white-sox-pitcher-suing-team-mlb-covid-vaccine-n2672512