Monday, February 23, 2026

Trump’s NASA Pick Is DEI-Peddling Dem Donor Who Opposed ‘Rich White Guys’ Going to Space.

Jared Isaacman, the nominee to serve as administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), has a concerning history of being a significant donor to Democratic Party candidates, as well as Democrat-aligned SuperPACs and campaign committees. Additionally, two companies founded by Isaacman heavily promote diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives (DEI) and environmental, social, and governance (ESG) programs—both of which push a radical progressive political agenda.

Technology and space exploration billionaire Elon Musk is likely pushing for Isaacman’s nomination. Isaacman served as the commander of Musk’s SpaceX’s Inspiration4 private space flight mission, as well as its Polaris Dawn mission launched in 2024. He was the first private citizen to perform an EVA spacewalk.

DEMOCRAT DONOR. 

Since 2010, Isaacman has given nearly $300,000 to candidates and political committees—with almost all of the money going to Democratic Party entities and lawmakers. According to Federal Election Commission (FEC) data, Isaacman—during the 2024 election cycle—gave $3,300 to Senate Jon Tester’s (D-MT) failed election bid. Meanwhile, he contributed $6,600 to Representative Elissa Slotkin (D-MI), who narrowly defeated former Congressman Mike Rogers (R-MI) for Michigan’s open Senate seat.

Additionally, the technology entrepreneur invested heavily in Democratic Party efforts in Pennsylvania—giving the state party $10,000 in July of this year, contributing $3,3000 directly to Senator Bob Casey Jr. (D-PA), and giving another $15,400 to Casey’s joint fundraising committee. Casey would go on to lose re-election to his Republican challenger, Dave McCormick.

The NASA administrator nominee was also active on behalf of Democrats during the 2022 mid-term election cycle. Isaacman contributed nearly $60,000 to the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC). Additionally, he gave $100,000 to the Senate Majority PAC controlled by Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY). Notably, Schumer himself also received $5,800 from Isaacman.

Other Democrats receiving contributions include $2,900.00 for Senator Mark Kelly (D-AZ),  $5,800 for Rep. Susan Wild (D-PA), $2,900 for Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA), $2,900 for Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), and $2,900 for both Sens. Tester and Casey.

Between 2010 and 2016, Isaacman gave less than $10,000 to Republican candidates.

DEI AND ESG PROMOTOR. 

In addition to his significant support for Democratic politicians, Isaacman founded companies Shift4 Payments (a payment processing firm) and Draken International (an aerospace and defense contractor), which are major promoters of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives and environmental, social, and governance (ESG) programs. Shift4 Payments provides investors with an ESG factsheet that touts the company’s net-zero water usage, net-zero carbon emissions, and its use of renewable energy.

In addition, the Shift4 Payments investor fact sheet notes the company’s commitment to DEI. It states that 35 percent of the company’s workforce is female, while 41 percent is black, indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC). Shift4 Payments also maintains two DEI workforce networks: ‘Women @ Shift4’ and ‘Pride @ Shift4.’

Meanwhile, Draken International similarly promotes a DEI agenda in the workplace. The company sponsored the 2024 Inclusivity in Aviation Reception, which was hosted at the Houses of Parliament in the United Kingdom. Draken announced its sponsorship in a LinkedIn post: “We were thrilled to sponsor this event once again, following the inaugural ‘Women in Aviation’ event in 2022. We did so not because we consider Draken as a paragon of virtue when it comes to inclusivity. Quite the opposite. Like our fellow sponsors Lockheed Martin, we are on a path—and that path will see companies such as ours broaden the appeal of a career in aviation to sectors of society that, to date, have been excluded.”

WHITE GUYS IN SPACE.

Perhaps the most concerning aspect of Isaacman’s background is his comments regarding the need for greater diversity in space exploration. Before the Inspiration4 mission in 2021, Isaacman, speaking with the Unleash Your Greatness Within podcast host TJ Hoisington, lamented that private space flight is dominated by “rich white guys.”

“I did not want four rich white guys that are going up into space,” Isaacman told Hoisington, stressing the importance of having a diverse mission crew for Inspiration4.

Isaacman repeated a similar line during a 2021 interview with the New York Times, stating he deliberately set up the selection of the passengers on the Inspiration4 mission to ensure diversity. “Is it going to represent all of the people of Earth and not just rich white guys?” he told the NYT at the time.

Image by Inspiration4 / John Kraus.

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Jared Isaacman, the nominee to serve as administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), has a concerning history of being a significant donor to Democratic Party candidates, as well as Democrat-aligned SuperPACs and campaign committees. Additionally, two companies founded by Isaacman heavily promote diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives (DEI) and environmental, social, and governance (ESG) programs—both of which push a radical progressive political agenda. show more

ICYMI: Top Kamala Surrogate: ‘F**k White Women.’

Cora Masters Barry—the widow of the late Washington, D.C. mayor Marion Barry—slammed Democrats for being overly focused on white women voters. During a Zoom call with Rolling Out CEO Munson Steed, she emphatically insisted: “F**k white women.” The recently resurfaced remarks came in the lead-up to the 2020 presidential election and were followed by a racist diatribe by the black feminist and activist who has met with Kamala Harris and other White House officials dozens of times.

‘F**K WHITE WOMEN.’

“We have to change our strategy… got to get our people. We have to get our—they got their people. They got all the trailer parks all covered. All them people up in West Virginia and the hills, they’re covered. They got them all the way there to Wall Street,” Barry said on the call, complaining that Democrats were pandering to white female voters at the expense of black women.

She continued: “[Trump] did that, and we’re sitting here talking about the white women. F**k the white women—excuse me—forget the white women. They’re going to do what the white men tell them to do.”


Barry is an outspoken supporter of Vice President Harris, the 2024 Democratic presidential nominee. She also serves as a commissioner on Washington, D.C.’s Commission on the Arts and the Humanities.

“They be smiling in their faces, they want to stay in charge,” Barry’s racist diatribe continued. She added: “I don’t care nothing about them, we got to do what we got to do.”

PLANNING FOR KAMALA 2024?

During the same appearance with Steed, Barry and fellow activist Melanie Campbell appeared to back a Harris presidential run—stating the next president needed to be a black woman. “And that’s not going to happen if we don’t reach all of our black people, because they’re the ones who are going to put her in there,” Barry said. “Those white folks ain’t going to put her in there.”

In 2022, during a memorial event for her late husband, Barry heaped praise on infamous anti-white racist and anti-Semite Louis Farrakhan, the leader of the Nation of Islam. “Minister Farrakhan, we love you more than you love us. You just don’t know it,” she said.

Image by Gage Skidmore.

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Cora Masters Barry—the widow of the late Washington, D.C. mayor Marion Barry—slammed Democrats for being overly focused on white women voters. During a Zoom call with Rolling Out CEO Munson Steed, she emphatically insisted: "F**k white women." The recently resurfaced remarks came in the lead-up to the 2020 presidential election and were followed by a racist diatribe by the black feminist and activist who has met with Kamala Harris and other White House officials dozens of times. show more

Church Vandalized with ‘Kill Whites’ Graffiti.

A church was desecrated this week by vandals who daubed it with the words “kill whites.” The attack on the 800-year-old Heggen church in Vikersund, Norway, likely took place overnight on Monday or early Tuesday.

The graffiti comes after a local 55-year-old man named Runar Magnussen was violently attacked in the streets of Vikersund by several young men, with an 18-year-old later being arrested in connection to the attack. The incident was caught on video and shows three youths who appear to be from migrant backgrounds arguing with Magnussen before one attacks him, punching him to the ground.

Magnussen later stated that he recognized the youths as part of a local gang and wanted to talk some sense into them. Local police also acknowledge that the teenager arrested has a criminal history.

The arrested teenager claims that Magnussen was racist toward him, which the 55-year-old denies. Magnussen states that, in fact, the opposite is the case, and he received racial abuse from the gang.

SPREADING PROBLEM.

The vandalism incident comes just days after “no whites” graffiti was found in a Muslim-majority area of the English city of Birmingham.

This graffiti was located just under a mile away from where a Muslim mob went on a rampage, attacking random white people in response to a rumored “far-right” anti-mass migration protest that never took place.

Local police later dismissed criticism of the lack of presence of officers on the day, claiming the Muslim community was determined to be able to police themselves.

Image by Trond Strandsberg.

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A church was desecrated this week by vandals who daubed it with the words "kill whites." The attack on the 800-year-old Heggen church in Vikersund, Norway, likely took place overnight on Monday or early Tuesday. show more

Teachers Told to Challenge ‘Whiteness’ of Kids as Part of ‘Anti-Racist’ Training.

Teachers will challenge “whiteness” within their schools, according to new training that calls on them to “disrupt” the centrality of “whiteness” in Britain—where a large majority of the population is white. New teacher training frameworks in England and Scotland are set to transform educational approaches to race and identity. Both have been endorsed by the National Education Union and teacher training universities.

Scotland’s “anti-racism framework” aims to challenge the supposed dominance of “whiteness” in education. According to training materials, teachers will disrupt conventional perspectives by incorporating lessons on colonialism and racism.

The program’s stated goal is to counteract any “false notions of superiority” and foster a more inclusive and diverse educational setting.

Similarly, England’s 2023 “anti-racism” framework emphasizes the role of teachers across all age groups in combating racism.

According to the 2021 census, 81.7 percent of the population in England and Wales are white, while in Scotland, white people are 92.9 percent of the population.

AN ANTI-WHITE ESTABLISHMENT.

Despite the White British living in the country for many hundreds—or in some cases thousands—of years, media, educators, and politicians claim the nation is too white.

Former Scottish First Minister Humza Yousaf, who is of Pakistani heritage, once went on a tirade in the Scottish Parliament in 2020, complaining about the number of white officials in Scotland.

Britain’s national broadcaster, the BBC, has also complained that the British countryside is too white. Wildlife and Countryside Link, a collection of charities, also released a report this year claiming the countryside is a “racist, colonial” white space.

This anti-white ideology has real-world impacts on white Britons. For instance, the Royal Air Force (RAF) was found to be unlawfully discriminating against white men in recruitment processes, and Transport for London banned white people from internships.

Image via Wikimedia Commons.

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Teachers will challenge "whiteness" within their schools, according to new training that calls on them to "disrupt" the centrality of "whiteness" in Britain—where a large majority of the population is white. New teacher training frameworks in England and Scotland are set to transform educational approaches to race and identity. Both have been endorsed by the National Education Union and teacher training universities. show more

‘No Whites Allowed’ Graffiti in Muslim-Dominated Area Sparks Police Investigation.

Police in Birmingham, England’s second city, are investigating anti-white graffiti in an area dominated by Muslims, just weeks after a Muslim mob rampaged in the city, attacking white people and chasing out journalists.

Police say three instances of anti-white graffiti were found in the Alum Rock area, with CCTV footage showing one of the incidents taking place. A hooded man spraypainted “No Whites” on a wall outside a local school art around 1:20 AM last Thursday.

Naveed Sadiq, a local community activist, claimed those painting the graffiti were deliberately trying to stoke racial tensions. However, this is not the first time such slogans have been spray painted in Alum Rock in recent years. In 2017, a message stating “NO Whites Allowed After 8 PM” was found on the side of a building in the area, and a local leftist Labour Party councilor claimed similar messages had been seen before in another nearby district.

The new “no whites” messaging is less than a mile from an area where Muslim mob gathered to counter a non-existent anti-mass migration protest recently. They proceed to go on a rampage, attacking a local pub and brutally beating a white man, who suffered a torn liver.

Following the violence, police were accused of two-tier policing. A top police officer in the region admitted they had not intervened as Muslim “community leaders” told them they would police themselves.

At the same time, Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer was calling for draconian measures against mostly white anti-mass migration protestors. While Muslim mobs were seemingly allowed to brandish weapons on the streets of Birmingham with no interventions, white anti-mass migration protestors were aggressively confronted by riot police.

Many have been arrested and sentenced to years in prison for simply shouting at police or posting offensive comments on social media.

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Police in Birmingham, England's second city, are investigating anti-white graffiti in an area dominated by Muslims, just weeks after a Muslim mob rampaged in the city, attacking white people and chasing out journalists. show more

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White Cops Win Landmark Discrimination Case.

Three white police officers have succeeded in a discrimination claim after an employment tribunal determined that they were bypassed for a promotion due to their race. The tribunal found that the officers, Detective Inspector Phillip Turner-Robson, Inspector Graham Horton, and Custody Inspector Kirsteen Bishop, faced disadvantage by being excluded from a promotional opportunity within Thames Valley Police.

The tribunal found that in an effort to diversify senior staff, a decision was made to promote an “Asian” sergeant to the rank of detective inspector, bypassing the standard competitive process. Superintendent Emma Baillie made the decision after being directed by Deputy Chief Constable Jason Hogg to “make it happen.” The move disregarded warnings regarding the legal implications of not following competitive procedures.

The tribunal heard that in August 2022, plans were in motion to advertise a position for detective inspector in the priority crime team at Aylesbury. DI Turner-Robson expressed interest in the vacancy on the same day. However, by the following month, the superintendent had placed Sergeant Sidhu, whose first name was not mentioned, into the role without any formal promotion process.

At the time of the appointment, Sergeant Sidhu had not yet been promoted to inspector status. Despite this, she was appointed as detective inspector after the decision-makers “jumped the gun,” according to the tribunal. The tribunal noted that the Superintendent’s actions were influenced by a directive to ensure the appointment quickly, which resulted in discrimination.

Employment Judge Robin Postle ruled the decision constituted direct discrimination against the three officers, emphasizing that their right to a fair promotion process was compromised. The judge stated that the actions taken were beyond mere encouragement and disproportionately favored an officer with the protected characteristic of race.

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Three white police officers have succeeded in a discrimination claim after an employment tribunal determined that they were bypassed for a promotion due to their race. The tribunal found that the officers, Detective Inspector Phillip Turner-Robson, Inspector Graham Horton, and Custody Inspector Kirsteen Bishop, faced disadvantage by being excluded from a promotional opportunity within Thames Valley Police. show more

Wanting to Be Buried Alongside Your Ancestors & Loved Ones Is White Nationalism: MSNBC.

In a new low, MSNBC and Netflix news personality Alex Wagner is accusing Republican vice presidential nominee Senator J.D. Vance (R-OH) of dropping an “Easter egg of white nationalism” during his acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention. Wagner lamented that Vance’s speech “was not the same red meat, sort of blood and soil nationalism that you might hear in, I don’t know, other parallel universe Republican conventions,” suggesting she intended to smear the candidate regardless of what he said.

“I do think there were some sort of Easter eggs of white nationalism in the speech,” Wagner argued—kicking off what can only be described as an unhinged rant. She continued: “One of the things that stuck out to me was when he started talking about what America is, he said that ‘America is not just an idea, it is a group of people with a shared history and a common future.'”

She claimed that Vance‘s reference to the “plot in eastern Kentucky, where his seven or six generations of his family are buried” was a white nationalist dog whistle.

RANTING ABOUT A BURIAL PLOT.

“And I sort of understand the idea of sharing the burial plot, but it also is, it reveals someone who believes that the history that the family should inherit, and indeed the history that should be determinative in the story of the Vance family, is the history of the eastern Kentucky Vances and not the Vances from San Diego, which is where his wife is from and where her Indian parents are from,” Wagner said.

She continued: “And I just think the construction of, of this notion reveals a lot about someone who fundamentally believes in the supremacy of whiteness and masculinity, and it’s couched in a sort of halcyon, you know, revisitation of his roots, but it is actually really revealing about what he thinks matters and who America is, and that America is a place for people with his shared Western background.”

The line that Wagner found so troubling in Vance‘s speech was a recollection of a heartfelt conversation with his wife: “Honey, I come with $120,000 worth of law school debt and a cemetery plot on a mountainside in eastern Kentucky.”

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In a new low, MSNBC and Netflix news personality Alex Wagner is accusing Republican vice presidential nominee Senator J.D. Vance (R-OH) of dropping an "Easter egg of white nationalism" during his acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention. Wagner lamented that Vance's speech "was not the same red meat, sort of blood and soil nationalism that you might hear in, I don’t know, other parallel universe Republican conventions," suggesting she intended to smear the candidate regardless of what he said. show more

Nigel Farage’s Election Opponent Boasted About Drinking ‘White Man Tears.’

Brexit leader Nigel Farage’s Labour Party rival in the constituency (electoral district) of Clacton describes “white man tears” as his “favorite drink.” Jovan Owusu-Nepaul, whose party is expected to win Britain’s July 4 snap election in a landslide, made the remarks on Twitter, now X, in response to a U.S. student who said he “drink[s] white man tears on a regular basis.”

During the launch of his party’s manifesto, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer referred to the Clacton race as a “pantomime.” In response, Farage retorted, “If Starmer thinks the Clacton race is a joke, maybe he should look closer to home at his own candidate.”

Clacton, located in the Essex region east of London, is 93 percent White British. Sir Keir’s constituency, in the heart of London, is just 36.8 percent White British.

With Britain’s governing Conservative Party now behind Farage’s Reform Party in national polls, Farage is pitching his outfit as the real opposition to Labour. “This is the inflection point. The only wasted vote now is a Conservative vote. We are the challengers to Labour,” Farage stressed, emphasizing the fact that the Conservatives are behind Reform everywhere except  Scotland.

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Brexit leader Nigel Farage's Labour Party rival in the constituency (electoral district) of Clacton describes "white man tears" as his "favorite drink." Jovan Owusu-Nepaul, whose party is expected to win Britain's July 4 snap election in a landslide, made the remarks on Twitter, now X, in response to a U.S. student who said he "drink[s] white man tears on a regular basis." show more

Hey, Rural White Men! Apparently Climate Change is Your Fault, Now.

A new study by the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) claims that well-off, rural white men are the primary contributors to climate change. The IPPR, which describes itself as “working towards a fairer, greener, and more prosperous society,” also points to the super-rich as significant culprits.

The study highlights that individuals with an annual income exceeding £100,000 travel twice the distance annually compared to those earning less than £30,000. According to their findings, men are more likely to be higher carbon emitters than women, while non-whites typically travel less and apparently emit fewer pollutants.

Further, the research showed that 35 to 64-year-olds are the largest emitters, while residents of Britain’s most deprived areas contribute fewer emissions due to reduced travel. The study’s authors also asserted that rural residents are more polluting, attributed to their limited access to public transport compared to urban dwellers.

Dr. Maya Singer Hobbs, a senior research fellow at IPPR, commented, “Our transport system both reflects and contributes to social inequalities. Reducing emissions can actually tackle some of that injustice if done fairly.” Fairly, according to the researchers, is to double down on harmful ‘Net Zero’ policies. “Now is not the time to slow down our efforts to reach Net Zero – doing so just fuels existing transport inequalities,” said researcher Stephen Frost.

The study coincides with critiques of Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer‘s proposed plan to reach Net Zero by 2030, which analysis by Aurora Energy Research suggests will require an additional £116 billion investment. Aurora’s findings, commissioned by the Policy Exchange think tank, labeled Labour’s goal as “simply not feasible.” The types of extremist “green” policies advocated by the study’s authors have led to widespread protests in Europe.

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A new study by the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) claims that well-off, rural white men are the primary contributors to climate change. The IPPR, which describes itself as "working towards a fairer, greener, and more prosperous society," also points to the super-rich as significant culprits. show more

Indigenous Riot Over White People Voting.

Security forces have been sent to New Caledonia, a French overseas territory, following indigenous riots against more people of European descent voting. The riots have claimed four lives, and hundreds have been arrested.

“Reinforcements will arrive massively, immediately (and will be) deployed to control the areas which have escaped our control in recent days… to reconquer all the areas of the urban area which we have lost,” vowed High Commissioner Louis Le Franc.

New Caledonia sends representatives to the French legislature and votes in the French presidential elections. In 1998, the French government struck a deal to appease the indigenous Kanaks, restricting the franchise in local elections and referendums to people already living in New Caledonia before that year.

Over time, the number of people prevented from voting by this deal has increased to around one-fifth of the electorate. These are primarily people of European descent and their children, as well as non-Kanak Polynesians.

Nevertheless, the restricted electorate voted against independence from France in 2018, 2020, and 2021. The French government granted voting rights to more non-Kanaks this year, causing hardliners angry at the Kanak vote being “diluted” to riot.

There are no restrictions on citizens of foreign heritage from voting in Metropolitan (European) France.

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Security forces have been sent to New Caledonia, a French overseas territory, following indigenous riots against more people of European descent voting. The riots have claimed four lives, and hundreds have been arrested. show more