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‘Egregious decision’: Obama judge strikes down Trump’s $2 billion Harvard freeze

 

A federal judge on Wednesday ruled the Trump administration’s freeze on federal funds for Harvard University is unconstitutional.

The administration has revoked more than $2 billion from the Ivy League university over allegations that the school did not do enough to combat antisemitism on campus and is illegally using racial preferencing and other diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) tactics. Judge Allison D. Burroughs ruled the administration’s actions illegally imposed on Harvard’s free speech rights and that the university was taking steps on its own to tackle the issues the administration is targeting it for.

“Defendants and the President are right to combat antisemitism and to use all lawful means to do so. Harvard was wrong to tolerate hateful behavior for as long as it did,” the ruling reads. “We must fight against antisemitism, but we equally need to protect our rights, including our right to free speech, and neither goal should nor needs to be sacrificed on the altar of the other.’”

“Just as President Trump correctly predicted on the day of the hearing, this activist Obama-appointed judge was always going to rule in Harvard’s favor, regardless of the facts,” Liz Huston, White House assistant press secretary, told the Daily Caller News Foundation. “To any fair-minded observer, it is clear that Harvard University failed to protect their students from harassment and allowed discrimination to plague their campus for years. Harvard does not have a constitutional right to taxpayer dollars and remains ineligible for grants in the future. We will immediately move to appeal this egregious decision, and we are confident we will ultimately prevail in our efforts to hold Harvard accountable.”

Harvard did not immediately respond to DCNF’s request for comment.

Harvard and the administration have been in a standoff for months, with negotiations seeming futile. The university publicly declared it would not “surrender” to the administration in April, citing academic freedom and free speech concerns. While the administration has signaled a willingness to compromise, Harvard reportedly planned on beating the administration through the court system alone.

“Harvard is currently, even if belatedly, taking steps it needs to take to combat antisemitism and seems willing to do even more if need be,” the ruling continues. “Now it is the job of the courts to similarly step up, to act to safeguard academic freedom and freedom of speech as required by the Constitution, and to ensure that important research is not improperly subjected to arbitrary and procedurally infirm grant terminations, even if doing so risks the wrath of a government committed to its agenda no matter the cost.

“The First Amendment is important and the right to free speech must be zealously guarded,” the ruling stated. “Free speech has always been a hallmark of our democracy.”

“In an unsurprising turn of events, the same Obama-appointed judge that ruled in favor of Harvard’s illegal race-based admissions practices – which was ultimately overturned by the Supreme Court – just ruled against the Trump Administration’s efforts to hold Harvard accountable for rampant discrimination on campus,” Madi Biedermann, deputy assistant secretary for communications at the Department of Education, told the DCNF. “Cleaning up our nation’s universities will be a long road, but worth it.”

This post has been updated to include comments from the White House and the Department of Education.

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‘His ear, I guess, grew back?’ Joy Reid dons tin-foil hat to question whether Trump was actually shot

Fired MSNBC host Joy Reid on Tuesday cast doubt on the veracity of the July 13, 2024, assassination attempt against President Donald Trump during an interview with former MSNBC host Katie Phang.

A gunman shot Trump in his right ear toward the beginning of his campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, with Secret Service agents moving him off the stage as blood streamed down the side of his face. Yet Reid suggested during the interview on Phang’s YouTube channel that Trump may not have been shot, citing his recovery from the incident and what she claimed was a lack of documentation.

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“He’s got these magical doctors who claimed that he was shot in the ear, but his ear, I guess, grew back? He had a Duplo bandage on one minute, no bandage the next,” Reid said. “We can’t get a medical record from this alleged assassination. He was supposedly shot! We have nothing!”

Trump’s former physician and Republican Texas Rep. Ronny Jackson released a medical update one week after Trump was nearly assassinated.

“I have been with President Trump since that time, and I have evaluated and treated his wound daily. He is doing well,” Jackson wrote. “As reported and witnessed by the entire world, he sustained a gunshot wound to right ear from a high-powered rifle used by the would be assassin.”

Trump still suffered  “intermittent bleeding” at the time, which required “dressing to be in place,” according to Jackson. He wore a white bandage over his ear at his first public appearance following the shooting at the Republican National Convention (RNC) on July 16, 2024.

Jackson wrote that the bullet “came less than a quarter of an inch” from entering Trump’s head, producing a “2 cm wide wound that extended down the cartilaginous surface of the ear.” He also wrote that there was “initially significant bleeding” which resulted in “marked swelling” of Trump’s “entire upper ear.”

The New York Times’ Doug Mills even snapped a photograph that showed a bullet flying near Trump’s head immediately before he started to bleed.

A bullet is caught on camera near President Donald Trump’s head in Butler, Pennsylvania, on Saturday, July 13, 2024. (Courtesy Doug Mills / New York Times)

Reid asserted there was no public information about the attempt, contrasting what she knew about it to past presidential assassination attempts and assassinations.

“I know more about the attempted Ford assassination than I do about Donald Trump! And the Gerald Ford thing happened when I was a child! And they put out more information almost immediately,” Reid said. “We know almost immediately almost everything about [John F.] Kennedy’s assassination. I know more about [William] McKinley’s assassination than I do about this attempt to assassinate Trump when he was a presidential candidate.”

“We’re getting nothing! And the mainstream media isn’t demanding his medical records,” she continued. “They’re not demanding anything. They’re terrified of this man!”

Reid also questioned whether Trump was shot in a July 17, 2024, Threads post.

“What caused Trump’s injury and what was the injury? Sh[r]apnel? Glass? A bullet?” she wrote.

Thomas Crooks, the 20-year-old gunman, shot Trump from the roof of a building around 400 feet from where he was speaking. He fired off multiple rounds, injuring crowd members and killing former volunteer fire chief Corey Comperatore.

MSNBC canceled Reid’s primetime program, “The ReidOut,” in February.

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‘Every last one of them is wrong’: Florida plans to end ALL vax mandates

Della Poponea, a nurse in the Immunizations Clinic at Naval Branch Health Clinic Kings Bay in Georgia, gives a COVID-19 vaccine to a child, Nov. 15, 2021. (U.S. Navy photo by Deidre Smith)

Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo announced Wednesday that the state is moving to phase out all vaccine mandates, including for children to attend schools.

Ladapo said during a Wednesday event in Valrico, Fla., that the state is “working to end” all vaccine mandates. He addedthat “every last one of them is wrong and drips with disdain and slavery.”

“Who am I to tell you what your child should put in their body?” Ladapo said during the event. “Your body is a gift from God.”

Ladapo said that Florida state lawmakers “are going to have to make decisions.”

“That’s how this becomes possible,” Ladapo added.

The Sunshine State presently requires current vaccinations for students who attend public school, according to Florida Health’s website.

“People have a right to make their own decisions, informed decisions,” Ladapo added. “They don’t have the right to tell you what to put in your body. Take it away from them.”

Ladapo has been a vocal critic of COVID-19 vaccines for healthy children and pregnant women. He has also previously publicly pushed back against COVID-era mask mandates and lockdowns.

Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis — who appointed Ladapo in 2021 — notably opposed COVID-19 vaccine mandates for younger kids in 2022. In March 2022, Florida became the first state in the U.S. to issue guidance stating that healthy children aged 5 to 17 may not benefit from receiving the COVID-19 vaccine.

Moreover, Trump’s Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has been a longtime criticof some childhood vaccinations.

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U.S. House passes bill to hold China accountable for its role in fentanyl crisis

The House passed a bill Tuesday aimed at holding China accountable for its role in the fentanyl crisis.

Fentanyl is the leading cause of death in America for people between the age of 18 and 45.

“The Chinese Communist Party has played a key part in the deadly fentanyl crisis plaguing Kentucky and our entire country—from manufacturing fentanyl in China to laundering the products through the cartels and into the country,” Rep. Andy Barr, R-Ky., who introduced the legislation, said in a statement Tuesday.

The Stop Chinese Fentanyl Act specifically targets fentanyl manufacturers by allowing the U.S. government to sanction Chinese organizations, individuals, or government if those entities, according to Barr’s office:

“Produce, sell, finance, or transport synthetic opioids or precursor chemicals;”“Fail to implement ‘know-your-customer’ procedures; or”“Refuse to cooperate with U.S. counternarcotics efforts.”

Mexico’s criminal cartels are believed to use a chemical primarily sourced from China to make fentanyl, according to the Drug Enforcement Administration.

“President [Donald] Trump is securing our border after the chaos of the last four years under Joe Biden and border Czar Kamala Harris. The STOP Chinese Fentanyl Act will help President Trump and his team clean up the border by exerting maximum financial pain on the Chinese producers of this deadly drug,” Barr said.

The border policies of the Biden administration resulted in a rise in narcotics crossing the southern border into the U.S.

So far in fiscal year 2025, Customs and Border Protection has seized over 10,000 pounds of fentanyl, compared with nearly 22,000 pounds in fiscal year 2024 and 27,000 pounds in 2023. As little as 2 milligrams of fentanyl can be lethal.

In his home state of Kentucky, Barr, who is running for Senate, says nearly 7 out of every 10 overdose deaths are caused by fentanyl.

The DEA says most fentanyl is sourced in China. Fentanyl causes almost 7/10 overdose deaths in KY. That’s why I’ve been fighting for my bill, the STOP Chinese Fentanyl Act to sanction CCP fentanyl producers. The bill has now passed the House! https://t.co/RDJCJB108j

— Congressman Andy Barr (@RepAndyBarr) September 2, 2025

The bill will now need to pass through the Senate before heading to Trump’s desk for the president’s signature.

[Editor’s note: This story originally was published by The Daily Signal.]

‘Erroneous’: Trump to appeal E. Jean Carroll case to Supreme Court

E.Jean Carroll

President Donald Trump is appealing the E. Jean Carroll case to the U.S. Supreme Court.

The move was confirmed as his lawyers filed an application to the high court asking for a 60-day extension of a deadline to file a petition.

And it comes after the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals refused to reconsider a panel ruling against Trump.

“President Trump intends to seek review by this court of significant issues arising from the Second Circuit’s erroneous decision,” his lawyers explained in a filing appearing on the court’s public docket.

According to a report in the Washington Examiner, the fight with Carroll, who has exhibited some uniquely odd behavior as she promotes her case, is among the few disputes unresolved after a long list of lawfare cases brought by Democrat activists against Trump have faded into history.

It is a $5 million judgment based on a jury decision that claimed Trump was liable for sexually abusing Carroll some 30 years ago, and he defamed her by denying the accusation back in 2022.

Trump has repeatedly denied Carroll’s claims, explaining that the “encounter” never happened.

The jury did not find Trump liable for rape.

Trump’s appeals of the May 2023 judgment at the 2nd Circuit argued that the trial was tainted by allowing evidence that improperly influenced the jury.

The Supreme Court hasn’t made an announcement on the deadline extension yet, but if granted, would allow a petition for writ of certiorari to be filed up until November 10.

Another judgment against Trump involving Carroll already is on appeal. That is an $83.3 million verdict for Trump’s further statements that he never assaulted Carroll.

E. Jean Carroll is an evil, disgusting liar. Here are a few of her sexually perverted posts. pic.twitter.com/zlj0t0Ci9X

— Juanita Broaddrick (@atensnut) May 9, 2025

There are online videos revealing some of Carroll’s antics, videos that the judges reviewing her claims did not allow the jury to see:

BREAKING: A federal court has rejected Trump’s appeal of the E. Jean Carroll case verdict.

This is the woman who claimed on CNN that r*pe was “sexy” and admitted that the encounter with Trump “was not sexual.” They blocked Trump from showing this video in court. pic.twitter.com/O55THlDRt3

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) December 30, 2024

And there was the promise from a Trump lawyer that Carroll will see not a dime of the “judgments” as they were initially delivered.

Alina Habba, a lawyer for former president Donald Trump, said he would appeal an $83 million judgment for defaming E. Jean Carroll.

“My experts were denied, two of them. You are not allowed to be stripped of every defense that you have,” she added. https://t.co/ByS6wFr0pH pic.twitter.com/bY5fmYTOwh

— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) January 26, 2024

Online resources explain Carroll also has made similar assault claims against other men, including then-CBS CEO Les Moonves, who, like Trump, has denied her allegations.

Carroll since has written a book about her allegations against Trump, and repeatedly has gone on television and other shows to promote her writings, and herself.

The trial judge who heard both cases, Lewis A. Kaplan, was accused of wrongdoing in his decision to allow two other people who accused Trump of sexual abuse to testify on behalf of Carroll. Trump has denied those unproven claims as well.

‘Merit-driven’: State Department guts Foreign Service Test, dumps DEI questions

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio talks with the media after meeting with archbishop of Bologna, President of Italian Bishops’ Conference, Papal Envoy for Ukraine Cardinal Matteo Zuppi in Rome, Italy, May 17, 2025. (Official State Department photo by Freddie Everett)

The State Department is set to replace the existing Foreign Service Officer Test (FSOT) in favor of a more “merit-based” structure, the agency exclusively told the Daily Caller News Foundation on Wednesday.

The FSOT will be replaced with a new formulation, scrapping the current iteration for a test not “riddled with [Diversity, Equity and Inclusion] principles,” a senior State Department official told the DCNF. The move is part of a larger push under Secretary Rubio and President Trump to revamp the agency by cutting wasteful spending and re-prioritizing the department’s efforts toward U.S. national interests.

“Secretary Rubio, under President Trump’s leadership, is weeding out these abuses and distortions and restoring a system where talent, not affirmative action, drives opportunities,” the senior State Department official told the DCNF. “The new FSOT will be merit-driven, opening the door to patriots ready to serve no matter their race, religion, sex, or ethnicity.”

A senior State Department official told the DCNF that some questions on the old FSOT were designed to exclude some ordinary Americans from the Foreign Service based on their upbringing.

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The old FSOT included questions on how often applicants ‘seek out activities with diverse ethnic and cultural groups’ and how likely they are to develop relationships with people for whom English was not a first language, according to materials obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation.

Foreign service officers are expected to manage relations with America’s many allies across the world. The new test is intended to be one of many steps taken to overhaul the Foreign Service program.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order in February calling for a revamp of the U.S. diplomatic corps, charging Rubio with employing “an exceptional workforce of patriots.” In the past, State Department employees have long had a reputation for having politically liberal leanings and often enforcing their ideas with agency policy, especially under former President Joe Biden’s administration.

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The FSOT was de-emphasized as a neutral barrier to entry to the diplomatic corps in favor of incorporating other “intersectional” factors under the Biden administration, according to a report from the Heritage Foundation.

Since Trump took office, the State Department — long known for its liberal leanings — has seen an influx of conservatives, bolstered by recruiting pipelines such as the Ben Franklin Fellowship.

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‘Liberals HATE IT!’ White House trolls Dems via LinkedIn thumbnail switcheroo

In a move reminiscent of President Bill Clinton staffers removing the “W” key from White House keyboards, someone on President Trump’s tech staff is trolling former Democrat employees of the executive branch via LinkedIn, by making sure 47’s photo appears in their online profiles.

If a Democrat worked in the Obama or Biden administration and lists that job in his or her profile, since “The White House” is the employer, the current president’s photo is displayed.

“Liberals HATE IT!” remarked Eric Daugherty on X.

? BREAKING: The White House on LinkedIn has changed their profile picture to Donald Trump, so even the people who worked for BIDEN from 2021-2025 have Trump’s face on their profile. Liberals HATE IT. ?

“If you worked for the White House in the past, and it’s on your profile,… pic.twitter.com/HdG85jWq88

— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) September 2, 2025

A Trump parody account on X imagined former President Obama opening his LinkedIn account:

Yes. Any lib who ever worked at the White House now has my big, beautiful face on their linkedin timeline. —LFG!!!?￰ﾟﾤﾣ?￰ﾟﾤﾣ pic.twitter.com/GNr8NOGxpW

— il Donaldo Trumpo (@PapiTrumpo) September 3, 2025

Remarked a writer at Red State: “Once again, Trump and his team have outmaneuvered the Democrats. What are they going to do, delete the fact that they worked at the White House, probably the biggest job many of them have ever had? Are they going to nuke their entire profile because they just hate Trump that much?

‘Non-inclusive’: Company attacks employee over Bible and cross necklace, gets warning in response

Managers at a manufacturing plant in Springfield, Missouri, attacked one employee for wearing a cross necklace to work, and for having a Bible at his desk.

They claimed those items made him “not inclusive” and “unapproachable” and they scolded him for being seen as part of a “clique,” that is Christianity.

They insisted the workplace had to have a “neutral” environment and that he be “respectful to others.”

Now those officials have gotten a very nicely worded letter pointing out that their actions likely were in violation of federal law.

It is the American Center for Law and Justice that confirms it has written to the Timken Co.’s Missouri plant to object to the treatment, and to insist on confirmation that the behavior will end and won’t be repeated.

The ACLJ reported, “Just weeks ago, our client was summoned into meetings with HR leadership and plant management. He was ordered to remove his Bible from view, hide his cross necklace under his shirt, and refrain from openly expressing his Christian faith because it was allegedly ‘not inclusive’ and made him appear ‘unapproachable.'”

The legal team noted one boss “even lectured him that being a Christian is about ‘wearing it in your heart’ rather than visibly living out his faith. Our client was appallingly told by corporate supervisors that his Bible and cross necklace were ‘non-inclusive’ and ‘unprofessional.'”

The organization then confirmed it has dispatched a demand letter to the company, “calling on the company to immediately reverse course. We are demanding written assurances that our client will be allowed to keep his Bible on his desk, wear his cross necklace openly, and not be retaliated against in any way.”

“The implications of this case extend far beyond one workplace. If left unchecked, this kind of discrimination sends a dangerous message that people of faith must hide their beliefs to keep their jobs. Religious liberty doesn’t end at the office door. Every American has the right to live out their faith without fear of punishment or harassment. If a major corporation can tell one worker to hide his Bible and cross because they are ‘not inclusive,’ what’s to stop your employer, your child’s school, or even a government agency from doing the same to you or someone you love?”

The employee, whose name was not released, is in human resources at the company.

“He’s a faithful Christian and has always lived out his faith in quiet and respectful ways. As part of his daily routine, he keeps a Bible on his desk for private reflection and to alleviate stress. He also wears a cross necklace as a personal expression of his beliefs. Neither his Bible nor his necklace has ever interfered with his work, nor have any co-workers ever complained. In fact, Timken’s own handbook contains no rule prohibiting employees from wearing personal jewelry or keeping items on their desks,” explained the ACLJ.

The law is, in fact, crystal clear: “Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits employers from discriminating against employees based on their religious beliefs or practices. Federal law protects an employee’s right to wear religious symbols, keep religious objects in the workplace, and engage in non-disruptive religious observance. Courts have repeatedly held that punishing employees for such expression is direct evidence of unlawful discrimination,” the ACLJ said.

The letter warns that the company now has “created a hostile workplace for [the employee] and anyone else espousing religious beliefs.”

WATCH: Tucker Carlson gives voice to ‘disgusting’ man Fox News banned 6 years ago

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Six years ago Fox News denounced Michael Knowles as “disgusting” for making an obvious point, and then banned him from the air. He’s since been vindicated, to put it mildly.

(0:00) The Left’s Exploitation of Greta Thunberg
(3:56) Why Lawmakers Hate Nicotine but Don’t Care About… pic.twitter.com/y7hooQwsnl

— Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) September 3, 2025