ICE officials detained a Columbia University graduate student who led a coalition of anti-Israel groups and endorsed the Oct. 7 Hamas terrorist attack. Mohsen Mahdawi had his green card revoked by the Trump administration and was taken into custody on Monday in Burlington, Vt., where he was scheduled…
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‘Queer Scientist’ Charged With Firebombing Tesla Dealership, GOP Office in New Mexico
The Department of Justice has charged a self-identified “queer scientist” in the firebombings of a Tesla dealership and the Republican Party headquarters in Albuquerque. Jamison Wagner, 40, is accused of setting fire to multiple cars at a Tesla dealership on February 9 and vandalizing the facility with graffiti,…
Harvard Rejects Deal With Trump Admin, Putting Billions in Federal Funding at Risk
Harvard University told the Trump administration to pound sand—and take $9 billion in federal grant money along with it. The school has advised its attorneys not to pursue a deal with the administration over a series of demands, several aimed at combating anti-Semitism on campus, according to an…
Holding Space: Women Rejoice as Bezos Gal Pal, Others Make History
Lauren Sanchez, the body-positive icon and internationally beloved fiancée of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, thrust her way into the history books on Monday as part of the first all-female crew to travel to space.* Women around the world exuded feminist joy while watching Sanchez and her fellow crew…
Weekend Beacon 4/13/25
Amid the tumult over tariffs, let’s not forget a war rages on in the Middle East and terrorists are still holding innocent people hostage. Douglas Murray hasn’t forgotten. His latest book, On Democracies and Death Cults: Israel and the Future of Civilization, has just come out. Weekend Beacon…
Preeminent Wonk Kamala Harris May Launch an ‘Institute for Policy and Ideas.’ Here’s a Preview.
Kamala Harris, the preeminent intellectual of the Democratic Party, is thinking about launching “an institute for policy and ideas,” the New York Times reported this week. Its primary purpose, obviously, would be to solicit “donations” from wealthy Democrats seeking to curry favor with Harris ahead of her inevitable run…
NASA Jet Propulsion Lab Parts Ways With Top DEI Officer In Wake of Free Beacon Report
NASA’s jet propulsion laboratory has parted ways with its top diversity officer, Neela Rajendra, after the Washington Free Beacon reported that the lab had changed her title in an effort to keep her. “Neela Rajendra is no longer working at [the Jet Propulsion Laboratory],” lab director Laurie Leshin…
‘Stop Dunking on Defenseless Girls’: Billboards Outside Masters, Braves Game Blast Jon Ossoff Over Trans Sports Vote
Mobile billboards spotted outside the Masters Tournament and a Braves game this week called on onlookers to tell Sen. Jon Ossoff (D., Ga.) to “STOP DUNKING on Defenseless Girls.” “Protect Girls’ Sports!” the billboards in Augusta and Atlanta read. They included the phone number for the Democrat’s congressional…
A Top Berkeley Official Said Trump Threatened Academic Freedom. She Forced Professors To Set Racial Quotas for Course Readings and Guest Lecturers.
On April 1, the chair of the University of California, Berkeley’s academic senate, Amani Nuru-Jeter, issued a dire warning about academic freedom. “Recent actions by the federal government,” she told colleagues in an email, “are chilling open inquiry and undermining self-governance at American universities.” She was referring to…
BEST WEEK EVER: Trump Frees Hottest US Hostage After Winning Trade War, Making Showers Great Again (PHOTOS)
President Donald Trump is having one of the best weeks of his presidency. The stock market surged on Wednesday after Trump declared victory against unfair trade practices. He also ended the Obama-Biden “war on water pressure” and “make America’s showers great again” by signing an executive order to…