TEACHING BEYOND 9/11: devotes only a paragraph to the attacks themselves. It says that the United States merely “accused” Osama bin Laden of masterminding them. No mention on Islamic Terror as a context or the Crusades

.@dstangelplowe on the alarming lessons schools are teaching students about 9/11: https://t.co/C9mwQjR3oi pic.twitter.com/zDNv8YNSlx

— City Journal (@CityJournal) September 14, 2026

A North American Values Institute (NAVI) review of other materials found a pattern of activist framing of the terrorist attacks that leaves children ignorant of the ideological forces that drove the attackers and steers them toward activism instead of understanding.  --Dana Stangel-Plowe

from Dana Stangel-Plowe,

One of the nation’s most elite schools of education—the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education—created “Teaching Beyond 9/11,” a “multimodal curriculum for high school and college educators,” whose title suggests a comprehensive treatment of the events. But its lessons devote only a paragraph to the attacks themselves. It says that the United States merely “accused” Osama bin Laden of masterminding them. It does not explain al-Qaeda’s responsibility or the Taliban’s role in sheltering the group.

Meantime, the curriculum presents over 50 lessons about Islamophobia, racism, American power, and “social justice.” Students are encouraged to adopt political interpretations of the attacks and their aftermath and asked to identify “avenues for solidarity,” imagine “better futures,” and become motivated to act for social change. The curriculum includes a unit on “right-wing extremism” but offers no examination of Islamist extremism—the ideology that motivated the attack on America. 

. . . 

Terrorism is the deliberate targeting of innocent civilians to achieve a political, ideological, or religious objective. Students should understand the moral difference between those who deliberately target civilians and those acting to defend people from such attacks.

Unfortunately, the Penn curriculum is only one example of curricula that downplay 9/11 history. A North American Values Institute (NAVI) review of other materials found a pattern of activist framing of the terrorist attacks that leaves children ignorant of the ideological forces that drove the attackers and steers them toward activism instead of understanding. One teaching guide, promoted by the National Education Association, the nation’s largest teachers’ union, encourages students to blame U.S. policy for 9/11—for example, by asking “why some people hate the U.S. enough to kill thousands of people.” In a lesson on the American Federation of Teachers’ “Share My Lesson” platform, students read Osama bin Laden’s “Letter to America” uncritically and are asked only to summarize his arguments and find reasons for his anti-Semitism: “Why do you think Osama bin Laden hates Jews so much?”

HEATHER MACDONALD: Disparate impact is our greatest weapon against Merit. It is their greatest weapon against excellence and it is an abuse of the spirit of our civil rights laws

Uncomfortable Topics with Heather MacDonald: Race, Skills Gap, Disparate Impact & the Role of Women, John Stossel, with Heather MacDonald, February 17, 2026.

8:09  You say disparate impact is destroying America.  Most people don't even know what it is. 

8:13  It is a concept that was one of the greatest success stories of the Civil Rights that was running out of cases to prosecute and wanted to expand its jurisdiction indefinitely into the future and massively across society.  The history of it, we had civil rights statutes that were passed in the 1960s necessarily, belatedly, long overdue, that said as employers you may not discriminate against applicants based on the color of their skin.  And you may disagree with those. You may think that that's . . . For now we will give that a pass that you couldn't intentionally discriminate and that was seen as the way to dismantle America's long Legacy of racism got their act together and stop discriminating intentionally so the courts and activists came up with a new definition of what would be illegal discrimination and it gets rid of the idea of intention and intentional discrimination completely. Disparate impact is the conceit that if there's a standard that blacks do more poorly at is discriminatory so if you have a certain expectation of reading level or math skills to be a firefighter a police officer and an employer administers a test and blacks do more poorly on that, that's a racist test.  Instead of meeting the standard, our response is to throw out the standard.  And the employer is not racist.  You don't have to show that the employer wants to discriminate against blacks.  The employer just wants to qualified workforce.  But if he has used some kind of standard that means that there are fewer blacks qualifying that then becomes something that violates civil rights.  

10:43.  I'll give you an example right out of the fight Administration.  The Maryland State Police wanted to make sure that the state troopers could read at a very basic level because as a police officer you're going to need to write police reports you're going to need to understand the patrol guide you're going to need some level of dealing with written language and being able to read and write.  Very minimal level. So the Maryland State Police had a written exam and this is the type of question.  Four very simple paragraphs written at like maybe a third grade level that discussed theft from libraries in the United States.  And then followed up a true or false question.  Is theft a problem in US libraries?  Just reading comprehension.  Have you been able to understand this four-paragraph passage?  Well this test and the questions, were all at that level of simplicity, had what's known as a disparate impact on black applicants to be Maryland state troopers.  Black applicants failed the test at higher rates then whites.  The Maryland state troopers didn't intend to exclude black state troopers racism had nothing to do with it it was a color blind neutral test of skills but because it had a pretty impact on black applicants and disqualified more black applicants the Biden justice department brought a suit against the Maryland State Police for having a discriminatory test. 

Hiring tests that unfairly and unlawfully excluded them from employment.  --Kristen Clarke

12:33.  This is ridiculous taxpayers should not be on the hook for this it was not a racist Department desperate impact means that an institution can be completely color blind it can want to have as many different races as possible but if it has a standard that is color blind meritocratic but that blacks do poorly on you've got to throw out the standard and it's not just sort of Public Service jobs like policing

"Black, Hispanic NYers who failed teacher's test strike $1.8 billion in NYC settlement," New York Post, July 15, 2023.

Our taxpayers in New York recently paid out $2 billion dollars in damages because the exam for licensing teachers in New York State, which I can tell you went through decades of being dumbed down to proleptically avoid disparate impact.  Blacks still didn't do as well on it and so a court decided even though you've spent decades throwing out every question on this exam that has too wide a racial Divergence it's still you still didn't have the same proportion of black applicants passing as white applicants we're going to throw out the exam and you New York taxpayers are liable for $2 billion dollars.  Disparate impact is our greatest weapon against Merit.  It is their greatest weapon against excellence and it is an abuse of the spirit of our civil rights laws, which was to say "we're going to allow everybody to reach their highest potential.  We ban discrimination but we do not ban excellence.  We do not ban high expectations.  We want all people to reach the same level of competence.  We're not going to have two standards of achievement: one for a particular race, another for another race.  One for a particular sex, another for a different sex.  We are going to have a single level of excellence in the society, and that is how we're going to move forward.

When Race Trumps Merit: How the Pursuit of Equity Sacrifices Excellence, Destroys Beauty, and Threatens Lives, Heather MacDonald, 2023.

PETER CLACK: Virtually all heavy industry across the West is now in chronic decline. Simultaneously, the supply chain for this transition has been handed lock, stock, and barrel to Beijing.

Thank you to Colonel Towner-Watkins. 

Virtually all heavy industry across the West is now in chronic decline. Manufacturing jobs are being hollowed out, striking directly at power-intensive sectors like electric arc steel, aluminium smelting, and fertiliser production. Once-abundant, cheap, and reliable hydrocarbon energy is being degraded and decommissioned in favour of weather-dependent renewables. Simultaneously, the supply chain for this transition has been handed lock, stock, and barrel to Beijing. China now produces roughly 90% of all photovoltaic components, refined critical minerals, and panel hardware—cementing its position as the greatest manufacturing power in history through an unprecedented transfer of Western wealth. --Peter Clack

This may well go down as the single greatest transfer of public assets by elected democratic governments in world history.

Without any serious consultation with their own citizens, Western governments eagerly aligned with the UN and signed onto framework agreements like the 2015… pic.twitter.com/6eMyecYn5H

— Peter Clack (@PeterDClack) September 17, 2026

This may well go down as the single greatest transfer of public assets by elected democratic governments in world history. Without any serious consultation with their own citizens, Western governments eagerly aligned with the UN and signed onto framework agreements like the 2015 Paris Accord. What began as voluntary international targets rapidly morphed into binding domestic legislation. The resulting legacy is the systematic exclusion of taxpayers from decision-making, while administrations power ahead, committing billions in subsidies to unproven pet projects—such as Australia’s much-hyped green hydrogen initiative. Virtually all heavy industry across the West is now in chronic decline. Manufacturing jobs are being hollowed out, striking directly at power-intensive sectors like electric arc steel, aluminium smelting, and fertiliser production. Once-abundant, cheap, and reliable hydrocarbon energy is being degraded and decommissioned in favour of weather-dependent renewables. Simultaneously, the supply chain for this transition has been handed lock, stock, and barrel to Beijing. China now produces roughly 90% of all photovoltaic components, refined critical minerals, and panel hardware—cementing its position as the greatest manufacturing power in history through an unprecedented transfer of Western wealth. In place of high-density power generation, more than a million wind turbines and an estimated 9 billion solar panels are now scattered across open farmlands, hillsides, and coastal vistas. Because these sources are intermittent and unreliable, integrating them into existing power grids presents a colossal $21 trillion global infrastructure challenge. Prior to this shift, Western industrial policy prioritised dense, dispatchable energy security. Today, governments unilaterally lock in multi-decade decarbonisation commitments that outlast their electoral tenures by decades. Vast tracts of public and agricultural land are greenlit and bulldozed for transmission corridors, access roads, and sprawling industrial turbine arrays—all to serve an intangible belief system that vilifies carbon dioxide, the very driver of essential energy and biological growth. The tangible result? Some of the most expensive household power bills in modern history, the destruction of dispatchable coal and gas capacity, and severe damage to national industrial, economic, and defensive resilience. As one outraged writer noted, Net Zero stands as perhaps the most diabolical act of self-inflicted harm ever visited upon democratic nations by their own leadership. Government by regulatory decree is not government by representation. Mandating a multi-decade economic rewiring without an explicit electoral mandate violates the fundamental social contract between the state and the citizen. Locking in 30-year subsidy contracts strips future generations of their democratic right to adjust policy based on real-world performance.

If we weren’t so accustomed to being betrayed, it would be recognised for what it is: a raw, heavy-handed exercise in power at the expense of the people. 

JIHAD WATCH: Animal Rights Activists Defend Muslim Migrants Killing Animals

Read more: https://t.co/YbZfP0sTK9

— Robert Spencer (@jihadwatchRS) September 17, 2026

BROWNSTONE INSTITUTE: She pierced the immunity of the medical board that suspended her license over Covid “disinformation.” A judge ruled she can now sue the board members personally.

This should get interesting https://t.co/jnpaVvEnwv

— Kevin McKernan (@Kevin_McKernan) September 16, 2026

from Brownstone Institute, 

Dr. Meryl Nass just secured a massive legal victory for Covid dissidents. She pierced the immunity of the medical board that suspended her license over Covid “disinformation.” A judge ruled she can now sue the board members personally. “Their broad immunity that they thought would protect them has been pierced.” “The judge said, ‘You can go after them for damages, even potentially including punitive damages.’” This sets a groundbreaking precedent. “There were a whole lot of doctors out there that had similar attacks.” “Somebody had to do it.”

@nass_meryl

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