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Chicago's half-empty schools reveal a crisis city leaders refuse to confront
Pastor Corey B. Brooks explains why Chicago families are fleeing CPS for charter schools as 35 percent of public schools sit less than half full.
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It doesn't help that the Chicago Teachers Union has made a mockery of itself. The head of the union doesn't even send her own children to the public schools that she oversees. The CTU has continued to choose politics over its teachers and schools time after time. In 2025, CTU spent a record $4.2 million on politics and lobbying while spending less than 18% of its total spending on representing teachers. It poured millions into electing Mayor Brandon Johnson, a former CTU organizer. It then used that alliance to freeze school closings and to fight school-choice initiatives that have been a boon to many poor parents.
If it couldn't get worse than that, CTU also helped kill Illinois' Invest in Kids scholarships because they allowed kids to escape the public schools. Not only that, CTU has made the national news several times for using "days of action" to turn kids into activists for whatever left-wing cause is in vogue at the moment. So why would CTU be shocked when families see all of this political activity and instead choose to get the best education for their children?
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Socialist, communist groups coordinate, promote 'spontaneous' anti-ICE protests in Austin
Austin, Tex., ICE shooting protest was organized by socialist and communist groups within hours, not a "spontaneous" gathering as media reported.
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Media accounts reported that protesters "quickly organized" a spontaneous anti-ICE protest at an Austin, Texas, intersection following the shooting of a Venezuelan man by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent.
But a Fox News Digital investigation shows that the protests are being promoted and organized by a coordinated network of far-left socialist and communist groups, including the Democratic Socialists of America, the Freedom Road Socialist Organization and the Party for Socialism and Liberation, which works closely with nonprofits funded by Neville Roy Singham, a communist American-born tech tycoon living in Shanghai.
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California high-speed rail consultants billed taxpayers for a private plane, tiki bars and cigar lounges
A new California inspector general report reveals high-speed rail consultants billed taxpayers for luxury trips, nightclub visits and private aircraft travel.
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Just another day in California!
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Chicago's half-empty schools reveal a crisis city leaders refuse to confront
Pastor Corey B. Brooks explains why Chicago families are fleeing CPS for charter schools as 35 percent of public schools sit less than half full.
It doesn't help that the Chicago Teachers Union has made a mockery of itself. The head of the union doesn't even send her own children to the public schools that she oversees. The CTU has continued to choose politics over its teachers and schools time after time. In 2025, CTU spent a record $4.2 million on politics and lobbying while spending less than 18% of its total spending on representing teachers. It poured millions into electing Mayor Brandon Johnson, a former CTU organizer. It then used that alliance to freeze school closings and to fight school-choice initiatives that have been a boon to many poor parents.
If it couldn't get worse than that, CTU also helped kill Illinois' Invest in Kids scholarships because they allowed kids to escape the public schools. Not only that, CTU has made the national news several times for using "days of action" to turn kids into activists for whatever left-wing cause is in vogue at the moment. So why would CTU be shocked when families see all of this political activity and instead choose to get the best education for their children?
Wait,... are you telling me there's corruption in Chicago?
Who knew?
I always thought that was the reason the border was left wide open, to get kids for the teachers unions.
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It is not just Chicago. It is the teachers unions throughout the country.
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Harvey Weinstein sentenced to 15 years on New York sex crime conviction
The former film producer pleaded not guilty and denies all allegations of nonconsensual sex.
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Former Secret Service cybercrime expert weighs in on privacy after hackers breach stolen Flock camera
Hackers stole a Flock Safety license plate camera and extracted 1.6 million images, but a former Secret Service expert says the cloud wasn't breached.
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Numbers keep growing.................................And this is what they found. What else is out there? They know................. We know...............
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WATCH: Mike Lee explodes on voting error that 'keeps happening' as huge number of noncitizens found on rolls
Mike Lee railed against noncitizen voting after a report found 30,000 noncitizens were mistakenly added to voter rolls since 2000 across 11 states.
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Final Sophie Cunningham rally of the 2026 regular season pits supporters against trans activists in Minnesota
A pro-transgender counterprotester told Sophie Cunningham supporters they "should have been aborted" outside the Indiana Fever's Minnesota Lynx game.
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A pro-transgender counterprotester told supporters of Indiana Fever guard Sophie Cunningham that they "should have been aborted" outside the Fever’s game against the Minnesota Lynx on Thursday night.
The man delivered the remark through a bullhorn while wearing a T-shirt emblazoned with the word "abortion," as Cunningham supporters gathered outside Target Center for a rally in support of protecting women’s sports.
Another counterprotester used a bullhorn to repeatedly call XX-XY Athletics — a women’s sports apparel company that opposes biological males competing in women’s sports — a "hate group."
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Social worker sues after she says she refused to conceal students’ gender transitions from parents
Jeanette Martinez claims Albuquerque Public Schools forces staff to hide students' gender transitions from parents, violating her First Amendment rights.
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Please, please be vigilant.
Interesting. No, it won't be extended downward...
Voters in Washington State will soon be asked to decide which they resent more: rich people or new taxes.
At issue is the state’s new “millionaires tax,” a 9.9 percent tax on income over $1 million a year that is expected to bring in more than $3 billion annually and, in the process, ease if not solve the state’s ongoing fiscal problems.
Critics want voters to repeal it and bar state leaders from imposing income taxes in the future, arguing the millionaires tax will drive out wealthy entrepreneurs and eventually lead to income taxes on everyone else.
“The goal is to put an income tax on every Washingtonian,” former United States Representative Jaime Herrera Beutler, a Republican, said at a recent news conference organized by one of the campaigns working to repeal the tax. “Don’t let them fool you.”
The November election will test how voters feel about taxing the rich up and down the West Coast. In California, voters are considering both a “millionaire tax” and a “billionaire tax.” The less debated proposal asks voters to make permanent a temporary income tax hike on couples who earn at least $743,000 a year.
Voters will also decide whether to approve a new wealth tax on people with at least $1 billion in assets, a proposal that has generated enormous blowback from wealthy residents as well as teachers and health care interests who fear it will damage the state budget.
But Washington is unique on the so-called Left Coast, one of just nine states that do not tax personal income, and voters have rejected income taxes 10 times over nearly a century. It is also at a crossroads. The state’s fiscal system, which relies on property taxes, sales taxes and other fees that hit lower-income residents harder, has not kept up with expansions in government programs and the rising cost of basic services.
“People who don’t know much about Washington politics would assume we have a highly progressive tax code,” said Rian Watt, executive director of the nonprofit Economic Opportunity Institute, a progressive research and advocacy group in Seattle. “The reality is, we have a tax code written in the course of a couple of months in the 1930s.”
This spring, the Democrat-dominated State Legislature approved the income tax for wealthy residents along with a slate of tax cuts for lower-income households, such as eliminating the state sales tax on diapers, soap and over-the-counter drugs.
Repeal proponents say Washington’s tax system is a major reason the state has served as an incubator for companies like Microsoft, Amazon and Starbucks. The millionaires tax, along with the election of progressive and socialist candidates, including Mayor Katie Wilson of Seattle, sends a signal to businesses that they are no longer valued, they say.
“This has gone from one of the most attractive places to start a business to the least attractive,” said Brian Heywood, a hedge fund millionaire whose political action committee collected more than 500,000 signatures to place the tax repeal on the ballot.
Washington has suffered high-profile departures in recent years as the Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and the Starbucks co-founder Howard Schultz moved to Florida. The Valve co-founder Gabe Newell recently bought an estate there.
But just 25,000 households make enough to pay the new tax. A Cornell University researcher named Cristobal Young studied the impact of taxes on higher earners in New Jersey and California and found minimal out-migration in their wake. Washington also hasn’t yet seen significant out-of-state movement after lawmakers created a capital-gains tax in 2021.
“Overwhelmingly, millionaires stay,” Mr. Young said. “They pay the new tax rate. They figure out ways around it. More likely there will be some people who were thinking of moving to Washington who change their minds, but it all amounts to migration at the margins.”
The other big argument against the millionaires tax involves the camel’s nose under the tent: Once an income tax is established, state lawmakers may look beyond millionaires. Gov. Bob Ferguson, a Democrat, has pledged to veto any attempt to expand who pays or to raise the rate, but he won’t be in office forever.
“Who do you trust?” Mr. Heywood said.
Until recently, Mr. Heywood, who is also responsible for Washington ballot measures this fall that would expand parental rights over school records and ban transgender girls from playing scholastic sports, was the chief public face of the anti-tax effort.
But allies recently turned to Ms. Herrera Beutler to replace Mr. Heywood, whose conservative politics have become one of the arguments for keeping the tax.
Progressives have described the repeal initiative as “a tax break for Brian Heywood and his friends.” They’ve also recruited their own pro-tax millionaires, including the travel writer and TV host Rick Steves, who lives in Edmonds, Wash., and the “Jeopardy!” host Ken Jennings, who commutes to California from Seattle to tape the quiz show.
“I like the idea that we could bring back an America where it’s embarrassing for wealthy people to say, ‘Even though I could afford this, and it will improve public services in our state, I’d rather fight it,’” Mr. Jennings said.
If the repeal passes, state leaders would lose billions of dollars in revenue that they are counting on for future budgets, forcing them to cut spending, reverse some of the accompanying tax relief or find other revenue.
Opponents of the millionaires tax have also sued to stop its implementation. They argue that it is illegal under a 1933 Washington Supreme Court ruling that income counts as property. That decision effectively blocked a graduated income tax in the state, because the Washington Constitution requires property taxes to be “uniform.”
The constitutional lawsuit is expected to reach the Washington Supreme Court before the tax takes effect in 2028.
Washington Taxed Its Millionaires. Now the Rich Want It Repealed.
Washington State voters will get a chance to accept or reject the 9.9 percent income tax on millionaires approved by the Legislature, which broke the state’s taboo against levying income taxes.Voters in Washington State will soon be asked to decide which they resent more: rich people or new taxes.
At issue is the state’s new “millionaires tax,” a 9.9 percent tax on income over $1 million a year that is expected to bring in more than $3 billion annually and, in the process, ease if not solve the state’s ongoing fiscal problems.
Critics want voters to repeal it and bar state leaders from imposing income taxes in the future, arguing the millionaires tax will drive out wealthy entrepreneurs and eventually lead to income taxes on everyone else.
“The goal is to put an income tax on every Washingtonian,” former United States Representative Jaime Herrera Beutler, a Republican, said at a recent news conference organized by one of the campaigns working to repeal the tax. “Don’t let them fool you.”
The November election will test how voters feel about taxing the rich up and down the West Coast. In California, voters are considering both a “millionaire tax” and a “billionaire tax.” The less debated proposal asks voters to make permanent a temporary income tax hike on couples who earn at least $743,000 a year.
Voters will also decide whether to approve a new wealth tax on people with at least $1 billion in assets, a proposal that has generated enormous blowback from wealthy residents as well as teachers and health care interests who fear it will damage the state budget.
But Washington is unique on the so-called Left Coast, one of just nine states that do not tax personal income, and voters have rejected income taxes 10 times over nearly a century. It is also at a crossroads. The state’s fiscal system, which relies on property taxes, sales taxes and other fees that hit lower-income residents harder, has not kept up with expansions in government programs and the rising cost of basic services.
“People who don’t know much about Washington politics would assume we have a highly progressive tax code,” said Rian Watt, executive director of the nonprofit Economic Opportunity Institute, a progressive research and advocacy group in Seattle. “The reality is, we have a tax code written in the course of a couple of months in the 1930s.”
This spring, the Democrat-dominated State Legislature approved the income tax for wealthy residents along with a slate of tax cuts for lower-income households, such as eliminating the state sales tax on diapers, soap and over-the-counter drugs.
Repeal proponents say Washington’s tax system is a major reason the state has served as an incubator for companies like Microsoft, Amazon and Starbucks. The millionaires tax, along with the election of progressive and socialist candidates, including Mayor Katie Wilson of Seattle, sends a signal to businesses that they are no longer valued, they say.
“This has gone from one of the most attractive places to start a business to the least attractive,” said Brian Heywood, a hedge fund millionaire whose political action committee collected more than 500,000 signatures to place the tax repeal on the ballot.
Washington has suffered high-profile departures in recent years as the Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and the Starbucks co-founder Howard Schultz moved to Florida. The Valve co-founder Gabe Newell recently bought an estate there.
But just 25,000 households make enough to pay the new tax. A Cornell University researcher named Cristobal Young studied the impact of taxes on higher earners in New Jersey and California and found minimal out-migration in their wake. Washington also hasn’t yet seen significant out-of-state movement after lawmakers created a capital-gains tax in 2021.
“Overwhelmingly, millionaires stay,” Mr. Young said. “They pay the new tax rate. They figure out ways around it. More likely there will be some people who were thinking of moving to Washington who change their minds, but it all amounts to migration at the margins.”
The other big argument against the millionaires tax involves the camel’s nose under the tent: Once an income tax is established, state lawmakers may look beyond millionaires. Gov. Bob Ferguson, a Democrat, has pledged to veto any attempt to expand who pays or to raise the rate, but he won’t be in office forever.
“Who do you trust?” Mr. Heywood said.
Until recently, Mr. Heywood, who is also responsible for Washington ballot measures this fall that would expand parental rights over school records and ban transgender girls from playing scholastic sports, was the chief public face of the anti-tax effort.
But allies recently turned to Ms. Herrera Beutler to replace Mr. Heywood, whose conservative politics have become one of the arguments for keeping the tax.
Progressives have described the repeal initiative as “a tax break for Brian Heywood and his friends.” They’ve also recruited their own pro-tax millionaires, including the travel writer and TV host Rick Steves, who lives in Edmonds, Wash., and the “Jeopardy!” host Ken Jennings, who commutes to California from Seattle to tape the quiz show.
“I like the idea that we could bring back an America where it’s embarrassing for wealthy people to say, ‘Even though I could afford this, and it will improve public services in our state, I’d rather fight it,’” Mr. Jennings said.
If the repeal passes, state leaders would lose billions of dollars in revenue that they are counting on for future budgets, forcing them to cut spending, reverse some of the accompanying tax relief or find other revenue.
Opponents of the millionaires tax have also sued to stop its implementation. They argue that it is illegal under a 1933 Washington Supreme Court ruling that income counts as property. That decision effectively blocked a graduated income tax in the state, because the Washington Constitution requires property taxes to be “uniform.”
The constitutional lawsuit is expected to reach the Washington Supreme Court before the tax takes effect in 2028.
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