[NYPOST] The New York City teachers union is sponsoring a virtual workshop on fighting back against the "harmful effects of whiteness in our lives."
The United Federation of Teachers’ online seminar, dubbed "Holding the Weight on Whiteness ...a concept invented by academics with time on their hands to disparage the European-descended for their multitude of racial sins, such as hard work, thrift, honesty, punctuality, and good manners... ," is scheduled for Monday, from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m., and will be hosted by Queens-based psychotherapy consultant and self-proclaimed "Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Leader" Erica Sandoval.
UFT members who are licensed mental health professionals can earn two hours of credit toward their continuing education credentials, which can eventually result in a higher salary.
The workshop costs $25 to attend and will focus on "key cultural themes ... related to the Latinx/e communities," including "internalized racism, privilege, [and] white identity," according to the union’s website and an Instagram post.
"Participants will leave the workshop with a better understanding of how to center ourselves as a form of resistance against the harmful effects of whiteness in our lives, the organizations we work for or direct, and the communities in which we serve," the post says.
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Hate yourself to higher pay for $25. I am sure there are comedic moments included but you would have to duct tape me to a chair to sit through the whole thing. If I knew there was a multiple choice quiz I could grab at the end I might make the effort, but it is one of those situations where I would be rolling a cyanide pill about my mouth the whole time just as a precaution.
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They don't seem to have a problem with whiteness funding their paychecks.
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Whiteness is demonstrated by loving your family, working 12 hrs a day to provide and forcing your kids to get good grades! Another thing about whiteness is that you don’t Identify yourself by the color of your skin.
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Whoa, "Blackness" a cause for alarm?
No, Blackness could never do harm,
So I don't give a f---
(though I'm rubbing for luck
an extraordinary African charm)!
[NYPOST] Former Gov. Andrew Sonny Cuomo offered a stinging rebuke of Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg ...Soros-financed, -owned, and -operated woke Manhattan DA. A prosecutorial loose cannon who feels entitled to pick and choose which laws to enforce and can't be bothered to respond civilly to Congressional inquiries unless they're from Dems... ’s looming indictment of former President Trump over alleged hush-money payments to porn star Stormy Daniels — accusing the woke ...the on-going war against good sense... DA of weaponizing the office.
"You have a cynical pubic, they don’t believe anyone and when you start to see these prosecutors bring political cases, it just affirms everybody’s cynicism," Cuomo told John Catsimatidis on Friday on WABC 770’S "The Cats Roundtable."
"It’s a coincidence that Bragg goes after Trump and Tish James goes after Trump and Georgia goes after Trump. That’s all a coincidence," Cuomo scoffed, referring to James’ investigation of the Trump Organization and the District Attorney of Fulton County’s probe into Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election.
"It feeds the cynicism and that’s the cancer in our body politic right now," he added.
[NYPOST] Rude reps for Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg told a House Judiciary staffer to "stop calling us with this bulls—t" after he made multiple attempts to get in touch by phone.
The Judiciary Committee staffer who called Bragg’s office at noon on Wednesday was promptly hung up on after he identified himself to a woman who answered the phone, a person familiar with the call told The Post.
When the staffer called back a second time and identified himself, a second woman bluntly told him, "Your committee has no jurisdiction over us. You’re wrong. Stop calling us with this bulls—t," the insider said.
"I don’t think I’ve ever seen any government entity respond to Congress in that manner. It’s quite embarrassing, but I don’t think anyone is surprised based on how partisan that office has become," the tipster said.
On Thursday, Bragg responded to an inquiry from the committee requesting documents and testimony on an indictment he is preparing against former President Trump.
While many expected it to come this week, his office has so far delayed brining charges.
In a five-page response, Bragg’s general counsel Leslie Dubeck called the GOP probe "an unprecedented inquiry into a pending local prosecution" and refused to comply — but left the door open to continue discussions.
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The Cohen disintegration could be called blood in the water, but it is more of a wet fart in a bathtub of an egg drop soup consistency.
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I believe I heard on the news that someone, a senior lawyer from the DoJ had recently traveled to Bragg's Manhattan office to assist his efforts against Trump.
[NY Post] President Joe Biden’s pick to lead the Federal Aviation Administration is withdrawing his name from the nomination weeks after he was grilled by Republican lawmakers for not being qualified to head the agency, according to reports.
Phillip Washington, decided to pull his name from consideration due to "an onslaught of unfounded Republican attacks" on his service and experience, a White House official told CNN on Saturday.
Washington was first nominated to be Administrator of the FAA by Biden eight months ago but has faced criticism from GOP members of congress over his lack of experience in aviation and potential legal entanglements.
The Biden administration respects Washington’s decision to pull his name from consideration, sources familiar with the decision, officials told the outlet.
The Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation was slated to vote on Washington’s nomination on Wednesday, but that vote was postponed because "they don’t have the votes to report him out of committee," a Republican aide told the news outlet.
Washington, the current CEO of Denver International Airport, led the Biden-Harris transition team for the Department of Transportation. He has also held leadership roles at municipal transit organizations in Denver and Los Angeles and served in the military for 24 years.
He had no aviation experience prior to taking the position at the Denver airport in 2021.
During his first confirmation hearing earlier this month, Washington to heat from Republicans who attacked his experience.
"As I look at your record, I see a record where you’ve got experience with buses. You’ve got experience with trains," Texas Senator Ted Cruz said, referencing Washington’s jobs in Denver and Los Angeles.
The FAA has come under fire since flights nationwide were grounded for hours in January — for the first time since 9/11 — because of an outage of a system that offers safety and other information to pilots.
Several recent near-collisions involving aircraft and staffing shortages leading to travel disruptions have also plagued the agency.
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If Joe is taking candidates with no experience or capability, I will have to update my LinkedIn profile.
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It's a recurrent theme. Buttgig at transportation, Granholm at energy, and this marvelous judicial nominee who Sen. Kennedy demolished.
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Oops, I missed this and posted a related story for tomorrow, with some of my usual biting commentary.
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It was indeed biting, Bobby. But you’ll post other things with equally or more biting inlines, so I felt no qualms about deleting that one. <3
[MSN] The death of a former Obama official on a private jet earlier this month could not have been due to turbulence caused by the weather, the National Transportation Safety Board announced.
Dana Hyde, 55, was flying home from a trip visiting schools with her husband and son. They were flying on a Bombardier BD-100-1A10 (Challenger 300) airplane when she was killed in an incident originally blamed on turbulence. A preliminary report from the NTSB, however, ruled out that possibility. The report said that the force that killed her was several times the force of gravity. Instead, the incident is being blamed on a series of blatant pilot errors and technical difficulties. The airplane was not damaged, and the four others on the plane were unharmed.
The flight started with an aborted takeoff, and when the plane finally did get into the air, the pilots were bombarded with alerts. Going down a checklist, the pilots switched off a mechanism used to stabilize the plane. That turned the autopilot off when no one had their hands on the controls.
"As soon as the switch position was moved, the airplane abruptly pitched up," the report read. "The [pilot-in-command] reported that his left hand was on the flight controls and his right hand was guarding the right side of the flight controls. He immediately with both hands regained control of the airplane in what he estimated to be a few seconds after the airplane’s pitch oscillated up and down. During the oscillations, the PIC instructed the (second-in-command) to move the stabilizer trim switch back to the primary position, which the SIC accomplished."
In the few seconds that the pilots lost control of the plane, the plane shook up and down violently. "As soon as the switch position was moved, the airplane abruptly pitched up,.." So the crew didn't verify the pitch trim indicator position before flipping the switch? Hmmm...
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As long as a former Obama official died I don't care.
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Neat trick, getting one passenger out of all on the plane. From what I read of the NTSB report, had to be like flight on the "Vomit Comet". 4g's down at one point.
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...Soros-financed, -owned, and -operated woke Manhattan DA. A prosecutorial loose cannon who feels entitled to pick and choose which laws to enforce and can't be bothered to respond civilly to Congressional inquiries unless they're from Dems...
[NY Post] President Joe Biden’s pick to lead the Federal Aviation Administration is withdrawing his name from the nomination weeks after he was grilled by Republican lawmakers for not being qualified to head the agency, according to reports.
The Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation was slated to vote on Washington’s nomination on Wednesday, but that vote was postponed because "they don’t have the votes to report him out of committee," a Republican aide told the news outlet.
