Monday, February 23, 2026
UK Taxpayers

Taxpayers Fund ‘Research’ on ‘Transphobia’ in Archaeology, Whiteness, and Gay Porn.

Taxpayers are funding researchers to produce extremist left-wing ‘academic’ work, including anti-“whiteness” projects and papers claiming archaeology is transphobic and proposals to reinvent the field as “fully transgender inclusive.”

One researcher at the University of York created a presentation titled Bones Don’t Care About Your Feelings: Challenging Transphobic Invocations of Archaeology in (Social) Media. He is receiving a stipend of £18,622 a year (~$23,205) from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), a government body funded by the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology.

Another UKRI-funded research project focused on archaeology and transgenderism seeks to “establish a framework for a fully transgender inclusive archaeology that tackles normative interpretations of the past and supports the transgender community in a period of heightened attacks in the present.” Its abstract pledges to build on “queer theories of gender” and “reframe archaeology as a safe, inclusive space.”

UKRI has been exposed as funding a variety of woke research projects of questionable value in recent days. Several anti-“whiteness” projects are being funded, including one titled The unbearable whiteness of class: towards an intersectional reading of poverty discourses in Brexit Britain, and another titled Bordering on whiteness: Exploring the racialised subjectivities of Italian women in post-Brexit London.

Some projects focus on sexual deviance rather than race, such as ‘Playing’ with Gay Sex: Exploring Sexual Play in Queer Pornographic Video Games Through Sexual Scripting and The Europe that Gay Porn Built — which received an astonishing £841,830 (~$1,048,330) in taxpayer funding.

A spokesman for UKRI insisted the government body “invests in a diverse research and innovation portfolio” after “a rigorous peer review process by relevant independent experts from across academia and business.”

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Taxpayers are funding researchers to produce extremist left-wing 'academic' work, including anti-"whiteness" projects and papers claiming archaeology is transphobic and proposals to reinvent the field as "fully transgender inclusive." show more
Katherine Maher NPR

New NPR CEO Has One of the Wildest Anti-White Racist Social Media Histories You Could Imagine.

Katherine Maher, the President and CEO of National Public Radio (NPR), has a long history of politically partisan and anti-white posts on X, formerly Twitter.

Appointed in March, Maher has led the taxpayer-funded broadcaster’s fightback against Uri Berliner, a senior editor at NPR who exposed its bias and obsession with woke objectives such as “identifying and ending systemic racism.”

“Questioning whether our people are serving our mission with integrity, based on little more than the recognition of their identity, is profoundly disrespectful, hurtful, and demeaning,” she complained.

However, this intervention by Maher, the daughter of a Democrat state senator and a Goldman Sachs banking executive, has only drawn attention to her partisanship.

As a senior and eventually chief executive at Wikimedia, she regularly posted diatribes against Donald Trump, writing “Christ, what an asshole” when the then-President was responding to a natural disaster in 2017 and branding his administration “on the wrong side of history” in 2018, for example.

She is also an anti-white racist. In 2020, she suggested she would not leave the U.S. to escape Trump’s “tyranny” because it would be an unfair use of her “cis white mobility privilege.” The same year, she said she had been “taught” to use a “hysteric white woman voice” to get her way. She also argued that looting, while “counterproductive,” was an understandable response to “a system of oppression founded on treating people’s ancestors as private property.”

X owner Elon Musk was among those who expressed disapproval of Maher’s post history, calling her a “crazy racist.”

Maher is also a gender ideologue but has still had to apologize for “trans-erasure” and “binary language” for using insufficiently woke phraseology while advertising her progressivism.

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Katherine Maher, the President and CEO of National Public Radio (NPR), has a long history of politically partisan and anti-white posts on X, formerly Twitter. show more
Department of State

‘You Are Judged’ – Biden State Dept Promotions Contingent on DEI.

The U.S. Department of State has implemented a finalized policy making promotions contingent on employees‘ ability to document their active engagement in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) practices. Federal agencies, like the State Department, were required to update employment and promotion standards following President Joe Biden’s Executive Order 13985, which “established that affirmatively advancing equity, civil rights, racial justice, and equal opportunity is the responsibility of the whole of our Government.”

“We made the change that if you wanted to be considered for promotion at the Department of State, you must be able to document what you are doing to support diversity, equity and inclusion, and accessibility. This is how you are judged for promotion,” Gina Abercrombie-Winstanley explained during a speech at the City Club Forum in April last year. Abercrombie-Winstanley, the former ambassador to Malta, was serving as the State Department‘s chief diversity and inclusion officer when the executive order was issued and was tasked with laying the groundwork for the new employment policy.

She added: “So that means my allies who are not female or minority are also interested in being able to show ‘I’m doing good work on this.'”

When the Department of State first announced the finalized DEI rule for public review, they stated: “Establishing the advancement of [DEI] as an element for all employees as part of their job performance criteria, career advancement opportunities, and senior performance pay.” The policy change is, however, just one component of a broader shift to align employment procedures with the State Department’s “Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility Strategic Plan 2022 – 2026.”

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The U.S. Department of State has implemented a finalized policy making promotions contingent on employees' ability to document their active engagement in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) practices. Federal agencies, like the State Department, were required to update employment and promotion standards following President Joe Biden's Executive Order 13985, which "established that affirmatively advancing equity, civil rights, racial justice, and equal opportunity is the responsibility of the whole of our Government." show more

Anglican Priestess Declares ‘Let’s Have Anti-Whiteness and Smash the Patriarchy.’

Archdeaconess Miranda Threlfall-Holmes, a senior priestess in the Church of England, has called publicly for more “anti-whiteness.”

Threlfall-Holmes, Archdeaconess of Liverpool, issued a call to “smash the patriarchy” in the same social media post, reflecting on the lessons of a race ideology conference she attended.

“I went to a conference on whiteness last autumn. It was very good, very interesting and made me realise: whiteness is to race as patriarchy is to gender,” she wrote on X.

“So yes, let’s have anti whiteness, [and] let’s smash the patriarchy,” she added, insisting this was “not anti-white, or anti-men, it’s anti-oppression.”

Since issuing her rallying cry, Threlfall-Holmes has used her X account to post about apples and getting new glasses but has been notably silent on Palm Sunday, Holy Monday, and other Christian holidays leading to Good Friday and Easter Sunday.

The Church of England, which is the mother church of the Anglican Communion, including the Episcopal Church in the Unted States has become increasingly woke in recent years.

While Church attendance is collapsing and Church buildings are falling into disrepair, it is spending lavishly on hiring “racial justice enablers” — white people are excluded by the job description — and establishing nine-figure funds to finance slavery reparations.

https://twitter.com/MirandaTHolmes/status/1770928148999188907

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Archdeaconess Miranda Threlfall-Holmes, a senior priestess in the Church of England, has called publicly for more "anti-whiteness." show more

MeidasTouch Author Blasts America’s Founders as ‘White Supremacist Rapist Pedophiles’.

MeidasTouch, the White House-linked group behind the “bloodbath” hoax, employs a contributor who believes America’s Founders were all white supremacists, rapists, and pedophiles.

Run by the Meiselas brothers, MeidasTouch gives ‘Coach D’ pride of place on its contributors page alongside editor-in-chief Ron Filipkowski. ‘Coach D’ made his comments about America’s Founders on social media in response to ACT for America chairwoman Brigitte Gabriel.

“If President Trump were alive during the Revolutionary War, I have no doubt he would have been one of the first signers of the Constitution,” Gabriel wrote.

“Yes,” the Meiselas lackey agreed. “He absolutely would’ve been a white supremacist, rapist and pedophile like the other signers.”

‘Coach D’ also said seeing the American flag on trucks “gives me a bad feeling.”  He also said he was not surprised Iowans voted for Trump due to their “overt white supremacy.”

He also regularly trashes black people who lean right. He suggested Candace Owens “wakes up daily wishing she were white.” He also described comedian Terrence Williams as “a proud agent of white supremacy” who “hates being black.”

“If there were a way to have a surgery to become white, Terrance would be fighting Candace Owens to be first in line,” he said.

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MeidasTouch, the White House-linked group behind the “bloodbath” hoax, employs a contributor who believes America's Founders were all white supremacists, rapists, and pedophiles. show more

DEI Jobs ‘Costing Taxpayer at Least Half a Billion a Year,’ Says UK Govt.

Publicly-funded Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) roles in the United Kingdom are costing the country “at least half a billion pounds a year,” according to the Cabinet secretary responsible for business and trade.

Olukemi ‘Kemi’ Badenoch, raised partly in Nigeria and partly in the U.S., made the admission in an op-ed for the notionally right-wing Telegraph following a review of so-called Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) – the preferred term for DEI in Britain.

“The UK has seen an explosion of EDI roles in organisations,” she wrote. “Studies found that the UK employs almost twice as many EDI workers per head than any other country. This same analysis estimates that EDI jobs in our public services are costing the taxpayer at least half a billion pounds a year.”

She noted that, in the private sector, “employers are even inadvertently breaking the law under the guise of diversity and inclusion by censoring beliefs or discriminating against certain groups” — namely Christians, heterosexuals, and white people — “in favour of others.”

She also acknowledged the scandal involving an unlawful, anti-white recruitment policy at the Royal Air Force — for which no one was punished.

Badenoch built her reputation in Britain’s Conservative Party by criticizing race ideology, breaking out as a public figure by insisting that teaching Critical Race Theory (CRT) and “white privilege” as fact in British schools was unlawful during the Black Lives Matter disorder of 2020.

However, no action was ever taken against schools disseminating such ideology, and she later refused to comment on the socialized National Health Service (NHS) pushing anti-“whiteness” training on staff.

In recent weeks, she posted a picture of herself wearing a hijab at a mosque in the Sharia-governed United Arab Emirates, claiming it was a symbol of “tolerance,” as her party was being accused of “Islamophobia.”

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Publicly-funded Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) roles in the United Kingdom are costing the country “at least half a billion pounds a year,” according to the Cabinet secretary responsible for business and trade. show more

Adobe AI Erases White People, Including America’s Founders.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) image generator Adobe Firefly is producing the same perverse results as Gemini, the suspended Google image generator that regularly refused to depict white people and inserted minorities into historically inappropriate contexts.

An investigation by Semafor found Adobe Firefly produced some of the same inaccurate results as Gemini, rendering Vikings and even “German soldiers in 1945” as black, for example.

The National Pulse found similar issues, with a prompt for “America’s Founding Fathers” resulting in an image of a black woman and a black man, and a prompt for “European People in the Middle Ages” resulting in an image of eight black people in medieval dress. A prompt for “German soldiers in 1945” generated an image as equally historically dubious as the one found by Semafor.

While Semafor suggested that such results result from “technical shortcomings,” the images produced by the now-shuttered Gemini program resulted from deliberate programming.

Requests to create images of white families would be refused, while images to create images of black families were accepted. Similarly, only images of historically white groups, such as Vikings and medieval kings, were rendered as ethnically diverse. Historically black groups, such as Zulu warriors, were rendered accurately.

In Adobe’s case, the company defended Firefly as a tool that “isn’t meant for generating photorealistic depictions of real or historical events,” standing by their “commitment to responsible innovation” and decision to “[train] our AI models on diverse datasets to ensure we’re producing commercially safe results that don’t perpetuate harmful stereotypes.”

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Artificial Intelligence (AI) image generator Adobe Firefly is producing the same perverse results as Gemini, the suspended Google image generator that regularly refused to depict white people and inserted minorities into historically inappropriate contexts. show more

Trump Judge Orders Biden Govt to Stop Discriminating Against Whites.

A federal judge appointed by Donald Trump has ruled the US Commerce Department’s Minority Business Development Agency (MBDA) can no longer discriminate against white people.

“The MBDA advertises services exclusively for some races but not others,” Judge Mark Pittman explained in his ruling. He added that the agency’s “racial presumptions” violated the equal protection guarantees in the Fifth Amendment and that even if its work “may help alleviate” supposed “opportunity gaps” for minorities, “two wrongs do not make a right. And the MBDA’s racial presumption is a wrong.”

While the MBDA thrived under Joe Biden, who promotes race ideology strongly, it was founded decades ago under President Richard Nixon as the Office of Minority Business Enterprise.

However, Judge Pittman insisted the agency’s age was insufficient to justify its methods, stating: “If courts mean what they say when they ascribe supreme importance to constitutional rights… the federal government may not flagrantly violate such rights with impunity. The MBDA has done so for years. Time’s up.”

The case against the MBDA was brought by the Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty, representing small business owners from  Wisconsin, Florida, and Texas who complained the agency had rejected them for being white.

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A federal judge appointed by Donald Trump has ruled the US Commerce Department’s Minority Business Development Agency (MBDA) can no longer discriminate against white people. show more

Paul Krugman Says ‘White Rural Rage’ Is ‘Single Greatest Threat Facing American Democracy.’

New York Times columnist Paul Krugman has declared, “white rural rage is arguably the single greatest threat facing American democracy” in an op-ed where he also admits that “at some level, I still don’t get the politics” of white rural Americans.

Krugman made the remarks in a review of White Rural Rage: The Threat to American Democracy, a screed by left-wing journalist Paul Waldman, an MSNBC columnist, and left-wing academic Thomas Schaller, previously featured by the likes of The Colbert Report.

Seemingly attempting to be charitable, Krugman admits “progress isn’t painless” and that the consequences of the changes wrought on rural America in recent years have been “devastating economically and socially.” He blames “technology” as the principal cause, reluctantly admitting “imports” from places like China have also played some role.

Krugman goes on to argue, however, that “metropolitan areas with large numbers of highly educated workers” have been subsidizing their benighted rural countrymen through “Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and more.”

He then mocks those same rural Americans as dupes of “Donald Trump, a huckster from Queens who offers little other than validation for their resentment,” lamenting the fact their “white rural rage” will likely be “misdirected” against Joe Biden in November.

“[S]mall-town America is supposed to be filled with hard-working people who adhere to traditional values, not like those degenerate urbanites on welfare, but the economic and social reality doesn’t match this self-image,” he claims, adding defensively that he expects to be accused of sneering for his op-ed: “Draw attention to some of these realities, and you’ll be accused of being a snooty urban elitist. I’m sure responses to this column will be … interesting.”

Krugman also praises New York City as “relatively safe.”

He concludes he “still [finds it] hard to understand” why white rural voters support Trump.

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New York Times columnist Paul Krugman has declared, "white rural rage is arguably the single greatest threat facing American democracy" in an op-ed where he also admits that "at some level, I still don’t get the politics" of white rural Americans. show more

White Men Aren’t Joining The Military Anymore.

Over the past five years, the U.S. military has seen a 35 percent decline in white recruits – the leading driver behind the wider recruitment crisis our armed services are facing today.

The numbers: According to new data, white recruitment dropped between 2018 and 2023:

  •  Army dropped 44%, from 44,042 to 25,070
  •  Air Force dropped 31%, from 21,593 to 15,068
  •  Navy dropped 25%, from 24,343 to 18,205
  •  Marine Corps dropped 34%, from 21,455 to 14,287

Did minority groups fill the gap? Their numbers increased slightly, but not nearly enough to compensate for the lost white recruits.

What’s behind the decline? Experts point to a variety of factors, including a growing distrust for government institutions, more appealing civilian opportunities, and the left-wing’s infiltration of our armed forces, which prioritizes “diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI)” over military readiness.

Big picture: This is all going down while the Biden regime has allowed kinetic conflicts in Ukraine and across the Middle East (Gaza, Yemen, Syria, Iraq) to take shape – all of which directly or indirectly involve U.S. servicemembers. Add to that the potential for conflict with China over Taiwan.

Lowering standards: Over the past year, the military has repeatedly lowered standards to try and drive recruitment. Most recently, the Navy removed the high school diploma or GED requirement.

The last word goes to Tucker Carlson, who recently spoke to actor turned podcaster Russel Brand and summed up the sentiment that I believe a lot of American parents have. He said:

  • “I’ve got four draft-aged children. So if you’re playing recklessly, fast and loose with their lives, then I have a right to despise you. And I do.”

This article is adapted from the free ‘Wake Up Right’ newsletter, which you can subscribe to here.

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