The first woman to lead a branch of the US Armed Forces has been sacked by Donald Trump for excessively focusing on diversity policies while neglecting border security.
Adml Linda Fagan, who Joe Biden appointed to lead the US Coast Guard in 2022, was relieved of her duties by acting secretary of homeland security Benjamine Huffman.
The president said on Tuesday that his administration was in the process of “identifying and removing” more than 1,000 of his predecessors’ appointees.
Less than a week into 2025, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, often known as the “Crown Prince of Woke Politics,” announced his resignation — an event that is likely to reshape the Canadian political landscape nearly ten months before the country’s general election.
Trudeau, the eldest son of former Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, took office in 2015 and presented himself as a leading figure in leftist politics. He declared that Canada under his leadership would become the “first postnational state,” characterized by “no core identity” and “no mainstream,” only “shared values.”
The most important thing to know about Los Angeles Fire Chief Kristin Crowley is that she is the first LGBTQ fire chief in the history of the Los Angeles Fire Department.
It’s also the only thing worth knowing about the woman in charge while Los Angeles burned.
JUST IN: Los Angeles Fire Department chief Kristin Crowley turns on Los Angeles leadership, says they failed her.
Remarkable interview.
Crowley called out the city for having no water in the Santa Ynez Reservoir.
Reporter: "Did the city of Los Angeles fail you and your… pic.twitter.com/fUQPoW32QA
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) January 10, 2025
h/t DS
In retrospect, maybe the military should have spent a little less time worrying about “white supremacists” and paid more attention to black Muslims. As you’ve no doubt heard by now, an Army veteran, Shamsud-Din Jabbar, who happened to be a black Muslim, slaughtered 14 New Year’s revelers in New Orleans last week.
For the past decade, Ottawa politicized research funding: Liberal ministers pledged to embed diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) into research practices while bringing diversity targets to the sector; they even said outright that federal funds would be used to tinker with the demographics within the research ecosystem.
And now, in 2024, the House of Commons is finally hearing about it. In October, the science committee kicked off a study on the impact of government funding requirements on Canadian research, and, for once, invited a slate of witnesses who don’t bow to DEI dogma.
In the days before Donald Trump’s July 13 rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, the Secret Service needed a member of his protective detail to develop a security plan to keep the former president safe as he addressed a crowd of thousands at an open-air fairground.
With agents stretched thin by the presidential campaign, the agency turned to a “junior” member of the detail, according to an independent review panel commissioned by the Department of Homeland Security.
Early in his 60 year career, Bob Dylan, one of the world’s greatest songwriters, wrote “The Times, They Are A-Changin.” Capturing, and perhaps influencing the mood, it became an anthem for a generation.
Change isn’t necessarily positive. In recent decades, slowly and then rapidly, the culture of North America and beyond, has descended into a progressive wasteland of self-serving, often racist, and increasingly nasty intolerance. Universities, corporations, and governments have initiated Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) plans that exclude those arbitrarily deemed favoured, often characterized as settlers and colonialists.
Tweeting on Christmas Eve, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre promised to “defund wokism and fight antisemitism. And stand with our friends in Israel against terror.” The statement included a link to an interview he gave to the Winnipeg Jewish Review, in which he said he would “defund … all those with a woke antisemitic agenda,” including universities.
The recent spectacular and decisive presidential election victory by Donald Trump — a self-styled benevolent “dictator” swept to power with an unequivocal mandate from U.S. voters — has become what can only be described as a political tsunami for left-leaning observers.
Vast change is in the offing. The political tectonic plates have shifted, prompting shattering eruptions along a number of predictable fault lines.
Church of England clergy have been urged to avoid ‘problematic’ hymns – it’s no wonder the pews are empty
If you’re planning to attend a carol service tomorrow night, you might want to check out the hymn sheet first – make sure you don’t end up bellowing out: O Come, All Ye Wokeful.
You see, priests have been told to edit popular carols this Christmas in order to avoid (I really need to create a custom keyboard shortcut for this phrase) “causing unnecessary offence”. Quite why you would be in a church to begin with if you found Christianity so offensive has not been made clear.
Do you see many vegans in butchers demanding to talk to the managers? Last time you were down the pub, did you notice any teetotallers raging at the landlord about his “disgusting wall of booze”?
The Biden administration has authorized $20 million in taxpayer dollars to create a Sesame Street show in Iraq in an effort to “promote inclusion.”
The Canadian Armed Forces has been deploying “gender advisors” to international operations, including in Ukraine and Haiti, as part of a broader push to integrate gender ideology into military activities abroad.
This initiative, highlighted in the Department of National Defence’s recently released 2024 Departmental Report, is drawing sharp criticism from veterans and observers who question its relevance during active conflicts and humanitarian crises.
Pretty sure our armed forces need to be shut down and rebuilt from the ground up.
h/t Mauser
San Francisco threw out its wokester mayor, London Breed, in favor of a more moderate alternative, and before that, its literally-Chavista district attorney, Chesa Boudin, raised by Bill Ayers, whose only interest was in prosecuting the police.
But the damage remains, and not just in the city’s abundant bums on the street doing drugs.
Something interesting and rather encouraging just happened at Toronto City Hall. (You can’t say that every day.) A leading official pushed back just a little against the reigning orthodoxies of our time and said: Hey, wait a minute. For that, he deserves not just our thanks but our cheers. We should be carrying him through the streets on our shoulders.
The official is Paul Johnson. He is city manager, the highest unelected official in Toronto’s government. He was reacting to a report from Ombudsman Kwame Addo, who plays a watchdog role down at City Hall. The report looked at a brief period in 2022 and 2023, when the city was turning refugee claimants away from its main system of homeless shelters.
Leaked Canadian military internal survey asked soldiers if they have purchased “extremism group merchandise” within the past 2-5 years such as a Make Canada Great Again hat. Here is the full leaked “anti hate” military questionnaire sent to all Canadian soldiers.
