Smithsonian Institution going Woke

White House tears into ‘extreme political activism’ at National Museum of American History

The White House lashed out against the Smithsonian Institution’s leadership Monday, accusing the network that runs 21 museums of “extreme political activism” and failing to celebrate America.

A new White House report accuses leaders of the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History of embracing "extreme political activism" and using the nation's flagship history museum to advance what the report describes as an ideological agenda.

The 162-page report, released on July 4 by the White House Domestic Policy Council, is part of the Trump administration’s ongoing review of the Smithsonian. It is the latest move in the Trump administration’s broader push to scrutinize Smithsonian exhibits and programming that federal officials view as overly ideological or "woke."

The report argues that museum leaders have moved the institution away from historical scholarship and toward social justice advocacy, saying the museum now presents American history largely through themes of racism, oppression and inequality.

“This ideological capture has moved the Museum’s mission away from straightforward historical education and scholarship toward an extreme political activism that seeks to transform our country,” the report states.

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The U.S. government heavily funds the Smithsonian Institution, providing about two-thirds of its annual budget. Federal appropriations—approved by Congress—account for more than $1 billion each year, while the remaining third comes from private donations, endowments, and retail revenue.

The Ragin' Cajun diagnoses what killed the Harris campaign

James Carville Just Torched The “Identity Left” In One Brutal Truth Bomb

Democrats have been in full meltdown mode since Kamala Harris went down in flames against Donald Trump. The finger-pointing started immediately after election night.

And James Carville just torched the "identity left" in one brutal truth bomb that left Democrats speechless.

Democrat Party strategist James Carville appeared on Fox News Channel's Saturday in America to deliver his harshest assessment yet of what destroyed his party's 2024 chances.

Host Kayleigh McEnany asked Carville about the internal civil war raging inside Democrat ranks over the party's embrace of far-left identity politics.

"Look, here's what has Democrats squirming in their seats," Carville started. "The identity left — or you can call it woke, I hate the word woke for good reasons — it was so stupid and it was so unpopular and no one wanted to use that kind of language."

The 80-year-old strategist previously told The New York Times that Democrats became so obsessed with "identitarianism" they couldn't recover. "We could never wash off the stench of it," Carville explained.

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HHS cancels half billion+ dollars in unnecessary Grants

We Were Paying for What? Trump HHS Slashes Hundreds of Millions in Woke LGBTQ Grants

The Trump administration’s Health and Human Services Department has canceled hundreds of millions of dollars in grants dedicated to researching illegal sexual behavior in children, pregnancy prevention for “transgender boys,” and so-called sleep inequality affecting black sexual-minority men.

In March, HHS canceled at least $530 million of funding for LGBTQ+ health research programs, according to a grant tracker from Noam Ross of rOpenSci and Scott Delaney of Harvard’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

HHS previously provided more than $990 million of grant funding to LGBTQ+ health research programs, according to the tracker.

The National Institutes of Health’s newly sworn-in director, Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, said that under his tutelage, the agency would shift its priorities toward “research aimed at preventing, treating, and curing chronic conditions like cancer, diabetes, heart disease, obesity and many others that cause so much suffering and deaths among all Americans.

The priority shift included cutting funding for studies focused on radical gender ideology, critical race theory, and other topics that polls show to be wildly unpopular with Americans.

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DEI Programs on the Chopping Block at Pentagon

DOGE Investigates Pentagon, Reveals $80 Million in DEI Woke Training

Washington bureaucrats have never met a dollar they couldn’t waste. For decades, bloated government agencies have treated taxpayer money like an all-you-can-eat buffet, piling their plates high with pet projects and ideological indulgences.

Remember when the government spent $2 million studying how long shrimp can run on a treadmill? Or $856,000 to determine if taking selfies makes you happier? Those head-scratchers barely scratch the surface of Uncle Sam’s spending addiction.

The Department of Defense announced Monday that its collaboration with the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) team has identified approximately $80 million in wasteful spending that will likely be cut.

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Left's War on Men

Vance slams the woke Left as weird

J.D. Vance used his appearance at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) to take aim at the Left’s war on men.

Barack Obama changed Title IX rules to allow woke activists to set up kangaroo courts on college campuses that categorized all sex as rape and allowed so-called “victim” rights’ groups to target male students for expulsion in Kafka-like hearings where they had no due process rights and the deck was stacked against them.

The Left also attacked any men who engaged in physical activities or played sports as exhibiting “toxic masculinity.”

Vance took issue with how the dominant left-wing culture indoctrinated young men into being ashamed of who they are and how they should feel guilty about the so-called “patriarchy’s” historical supposed oppression of women.

Unlike Joe Biden and the woke Left, Vance said that he and President Trump would honor actual science that says there are two genders, where men and women are born biologically different.

“We actually think God made male and female for a purpose. And we want you guys to thrive as young men and as young women. And we’re going to help with our public policy to make it possible to do that,” Vance concluded.

Getting common sense back into Government Policy

Disney scales back its wokeness after Donald Trump’s victory

Disney surrendered in one big fight with Donald Trump that left Hollywood rattled

Their left-wing progressive employees are rattled too

TOO BAD!

There has been a cultural shift since Donald Trump won the election. It is the dawning of a new day in the entertainment industry.

And Disney surrendered in one big fight with Donald Trump that left Hollywood rattled.

The Walt Disney Company became the vanguard for injecting woke content into its entertainment. But the company’s left-wing activism was not limited to its TV shows and movies.

Disney picked a fight with Florida Governor Ron DeSantis over his parental rights in education law that prohibited students in grades K-3 from being taught radical gender ideologies and sexual orientation. DeSantis stripped the company of its special governing district that controlled the governance of its Orlando theme parks.

Disney now announced that it was scaling back its DEI initiatives to bring them in line with “business goals and company values.” It wasn’t a total retreat from DEI for Disney, but it marked a dramatic change from a company that was caught on video admitting it was “injecting queerness” into kids programming.

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Overturning Wokeism

Trump's Renaming Spree is More Important than You Think

Trump’s administration is renaming forts, mountains, and gulfs to overturn the woke changes made since Barack Obama was president. 

"It's not just about the Gulf of America, it's about the direction we are heading as a country. The same direction we always were moving but it changed for a few years," Crowder said.

In 2015, the Obama administration renamed Mount McKinley to Denali. In 2023, Fort Bragg was renamed to Fort Liberty. Fort Hood was renamed Fort Cavazos in 2023. New York City's Natural History Museum removed a Theodore Roosevelt statue in 2022.

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Stacey Abrams attacks J.D. Vance as a DEI hire 😠

Stacey Abrams used three letters to insult J.D. Vance

What a moronic statement from a hateful Democrat

• Stacey Abrams insulted J.D. Vance by calling him a “DEI graduate” on MSNBC, falsely claiming that his background – growing up in a poor, struggling household – made him a product of DEI policies.
• Abrams’ attack ignored Vance’s actual struggles, such as his mother’s addiction, his father’s abandonment, and his rise from a state school to Yale Law, which contradicts the idea that DEI helped him succeed.
• Vance, who overcame adversity without benefiting from DEI programs, represents the opposite of what DEI stands for, which Abrams misrepresented as part of her broader left-wing narrative.

DEI is how the Left created a vast network of human resources and college administrators who forced wokeism on schools and corporate America.

President Trump ended that regime with the stroke of a pen.

This all greatly upset the patron saint of DEI, former two-time failed Georgia Gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams.

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Belonging at the Bullseye

EYE ON THE TARGET: Major Corporation Turns on Woke and the LGBTQ Mafia

In a shocking blow to the woke establishment and the LGBTQ mafia, Target has rejected the diversity, equity, and inclusion movement.

In a blog post titled “Target’s Belonging at the Bullseye Strategy,” the corporation laid out a new path forward that effectively disavows the woke movement.

“We remain focused on driving our business by creating a sense of belonging for our team, guests and communities through a commitment to inclusion,” the statement began. “Belonging for all is an essential part of our team and culture, helping fuel consumer relevance and business results.”

• Concluding our three-year diversity, equity and inclusion goals.
• Concluding our Racial Equity Action and Change (REACH) initiatives in 2025 as planned.
• Ensuring our employee resource groups are communities fully focused on development and mentorship. These communities will continue to be open to all.
• Further evaluating our corporate partnerships to ensure they are directly connected to our roadmap for growth.
• Stopping all external diversity-focused surveys, including HRC’s Corporate Equality Index.
• Evolving our “Supplier Diversity” team to “Supplier Engagement” to better reflect our inclusive global procurement process across a broad range of suppliers, including increasing our focus on small businesses.

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Wokeism: The Turn-off

Zuckerberg’s Woke Detox: Tampons, DEI, and Fact-Checkers Out

Meta Flushes Tampons From Men’s Rooms!

In the grand tradition of Silicon Valley’s relentless march toward lunacy, Meta has decided to rein it in, ditching tampons in men’s restrooms and pulling the “string” on their woke extravaganza.

That’s right, folks, Mark Zuckerberg has come to the shocking realization that when you pander too far left, you end up alienating most of planet Earth.

Tampon Tim—aka Minnesota’s woke wonder, Governor Tim Walz—is probably beside himself, mourning the loss of his bathroom accessories in solidarity with Meta’s disillusioned employees.

Let’s start with the headline-grabber: tampons in the men’s room. Apparently, Zuckerberg thought it was time to flush that one—literally. Reports confirm that facilities managers were tasked with yanking tampons and pads from men’s restrooms in Meta offices nationwide.

Why were they there to begin with? To cater to nonbinary and transgender employees, of course. Now, I’m all for workplace inclusivity, but this was a bridge too far even for Zuck’s empire. [Pagetraveler]

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Woke Rules thrown out

Biden Administration Admits Defeat by Withdrawing 7 Woke Rule Changes

The Biden administration withdrew seven far-left proposed rules at the end of December, potentially due to receiving hundreds of thousands of critical public comments.

The withdrawals are being hailed as wins by conservatives, who have submitted comments against the rules, which would have compelled allowing male participation in girls sports, prohibited religious exemptions for birth control coverage, taken federal funding away from pregnancy resource centers, and more.

“On balance, withdrawing these rules is a win for everyone who submitted comments opposing them,” Ethics and Public Policy Center fellow Rachel Morrison told The Daily Signal. “It means these bad policy proposals by the Biden administration will not go into effect.”

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Harmeet Dhillon, is poised to demolish corporate DEI policies

Trump’s secret weapon headed to Civil Rights Division

Marc Andreessen, co-founder of Netscape, reveals how Trump’s DOJ appointee, famous attorney Harmeet K. Dhillon, is all set to destroy modern corporate diversity bias. Harmeet is a fierce critic of woke corporate culture, and will soon head up the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division.

Dhillon is an Indian-American lawyer, political figure, and founder of the Dhillon Law Group, known for her conservative legal activism. Born in Chandigarh, India, a Sikh, she moved to the U.S. as a child.

Dhillon has been a prominent member of the Republican Party, serving as a National Committeewoman from California and running unsuccessfully for RNC chair in 2023. She has represented clients like Tucker Carlson and has engaged in high-profile election law cases.

“The Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division is the federal government’s prosecutorial arm that basically enforces wokeness. They’re the ones who have ensured that, for the last decade, these companies have had all these crazy policies under the penalty of being investigated, subpoenaed, and ultimately prosecuted.”

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Ben Shapiro DESTROYS disrespectful woke student during tense Q&A face-off

Ben Shapiro FIRES BACK at woke transgender student who calls him a bigot to his face during tense Q&A moment

Another "woke" influencer bites the dust

Woke leader of Scientific American quits after delivering viral anti-Trump screed

The woke editorial chief of the Scientific American, apparently the nation's oldest magazine with a launch date of 1845, has delivered a vitriolic anti-Trump screed.

And then quit.

Laura Helmuth, the woke imbecile who destroyed the once celebrated Scientific American by turning it into a woke propagandist rag, has resigned. Pressure from X, notably from Elon Musk, likely forced her resignation.

The departure was announced in a post on a leftist social media side.

"I've decided to leave Scientific American after an exciting 4.5 years as editor in chief. I'm going to take some time to think about what comes next (and go bird watching), but for now I'd like to share a very small sample of the work I've been so proud to support," she wrote.

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Secret Service and its Woke ideology

The Secret Service Was Created to Stop Leftist Terror. It Became the Left

"The Secret Service offers “leadership training on how best to support LGBTQ+ employees” and “training on unconscious bias,” which is the idea that all white people are innately racist and tries to guide more “more inclusive decisions” while “increasing empathy” for minorities.

Special Agents in charge are tasked with DEI, which distracts from their core duties, but diversity and its boundless benefits were not why the Secret Service existed. The Left was.

And it once again failed to stop President Donald J. Trump’s assassin until he had taken his shot. The nation’s first true federal law enforcement agency had been designated to protect presidents in response to a wave of radical leftist terror.

Unfortunately, the Secret Service, like much of federal law enforcement, drifted from its original mission. Rather than fighting leftist radicalism, the Secret Service embraced it.

DEI is a fundamentally ideological program and beyond lowering the effectiveness of any organization, it also introduces radical political agendas into the body of the group. Did those biases play any role in the failures of the Secret Service during the assassination attempt?"

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A Different type of Navy in a Woke World

Navy SEALs Go Full Rainbow Drag Queen Spectacle During Pride Month

It just gets more stupid by the day!

A graphic celebrating Pride Month was shared by the United States Navy Special Warfare Command on its Facebook page on June 1. The image featured rainbow hues along with the organization’s emblem and the phrases “dignity,” “service,” “respect,” “equality,” and “pride.”

One of the top three liked comments under the post read:

• “This is a slap in the face of every special warfare operator that has put their lives on the line for our nation.”

• “Man, this woke stuff is like a cancer and needs to be dealt with as a threat to national security. It’s gone way too far.” While these two comments were met with approval from many users

•  “I am so glad I got out before this bullsh*t took over.”

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"The Pentagon likes to say ‘our diversity is our strength.’ What a bunch of garbage. In the military, our diversity is not our strength. Our unity is our strength, and we need a commander-in-chief that understands that. Donald Trump certainly does," Pete Hegseth said.

Our mayor believes that diversity is our strength but then, she is a Democrat.

Boy Scouts changing its name to reflect DEI

Boy Scouts of America will change its name to Scouting America in an effort to be more inclusive

The Boy Scouts of America is changing its name for the first time in its 114-year history and will become Scouting America.

It’s a significant shift as the organization emerges from bankruptcy following a flood of sexual abuse claims and seeks to focus on inclusion.

The organization steeped in tradition has made seismic changes after decades of turmoil, from finally allowing gay youth to welcoming girls throughout its ranks. With an eye on increasing flagging membership numbers, the Irving, Texas-based organization announced the name change Tuesday at its annual meeting in Florida.

Title IX no longer protects women

Title IX Rule Change on Gender Triggers Lawsuits From 15 States

“The U.S. Department of Education has no authority to let boys into girls’ locker rooms”

At least 15 states have sued the Biden administration for changes to the 1972 civil rights law meant to protect females from discrimination.

Republican-led states are suing the Biden administration and advising schools to ignore the new federal Title IX changes that expand sex discrimination protection to students who identify as the opposite sex, or transgender.

The rule change, published on April 19, formalizes the Department of Education’s redefinition of the meaning of sex to include gender identity.

The changes, which go into effect Aug. 1, give males identifying as female the right to use female restrooms, locker rooms, and join female-only organizations. Under the new rule, “harassment” can include the use of biologically accurate pronouns.

The American Civil Liberties Union’s deputy legal director Louise Melling applauded the definition change to include young people who identify as transgender. Note, you don't have to have actually transgendered through surgery, just identify as a different sex. This is such BS.

About 1.03% of the nation's adult population identifies as transgender.

Democrats have gone mad!

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