Back in February of this year, War Secretary Pete Hegseth announced that the Pentagon was cutting ties with Harvard and other Ivy League schools for basically being too woke for the U.S. Military.

For years, these schools had a fellowship program affiliated with the military, but as Hegseth explained, it is impossible to serve in the military while being told by your college that the country you serve is a horrible place.

Now Hegseth has announced the schools that will take the place of the Ivies in this program.

The Hill reports:

Hegseth turns to University of North Carolina, Virginia Tech after cutting Ivy League ties

The Defense Department has selected the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Virginia Tech to host a revamped fellowship program for senior military officers — the first universities approved after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth severed partnerships with top universities.

The two universities will participate in the new Senior Service College Fellowship, a 10-month professional military education program that will serve as an alternative to traditional war colleges. Additional university partners will be announced at a later date, according to the department.

“We are deeply honored to participate in the Senior Service College Fellowship program. The program fits well within the context of our mission of service, and we take tremendous pride in our deep, longstanding relationship with the United States military,” Lee H. Roberts, UNC’s chancellor, said in a statement.

The announcement follows an earlier move from Hegseth to bar military officers from attending graduate programs at several elite universities including Harvard University, Brown University, Princeton University and Yale University.

Hegseth, who graduated from Princeton University and Harvard Kennedy School, argued that the universities had become “woke breeding grounds of toxic indoctrination.”

“We demand that senior service colleges work to sharpen our war fighters on genuine national security issues, not social justice activism,” the Pentagon chief said.

In case you missed it, this is the video of Hegseth back in February, explaining why this change was necessary.

BREAKING: SecWar Pete Hegseth just ordered the complete and immediate CANCELLATION of ALL Department of War attendance at leftist universities
– Yale
– Princeton
– Columbia
– MIT
– Brown
– Many others

The days of the military subsidizing woke indoctrination are OFFICIALLY… pic.twitter.com/pUGFhi9ekc

— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) February 27, 2026

The Ivy League schools could have made changes to avoid this but didn’t.

That speaks volumes about them and their priorities.

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Approximately 75,000 noncitizens are summoned for jury duty in the Garden State every year, according to newly disclosed figures from the New Jersey judiciary.

The revelation comes as state officials are already scrambling to explain how thousands of self-identified noncitizens were improperly added to New Jersey’s voter rolls and how hundreds reportedly cast ballots.

You cannot make this up.

The New Jersey Globe reported that New Jersey processes more than one million jury summonses annually using records randomly selected from three state agencies: the Division of Elections, the Division of Taxation, and the Motor Vehicle Commission.

Pete McAleer, a spokesman for the New Jersey Administrative Office of the Courts, said roughly 20% of respondents report that they fail to meet at least one statutory eligibility requirement.

Approximately one-quarter of those disqualifications, an average of roughly 75,000 people annually over the past three years, were because the recipient was not a United States citizen.

Under New Jersey law, only American citizens are eligible to serve on juries.

The judiciary insists safeguards are in place to stop noncitizens from actually serving.

“Prospective jurors are asked about their citizenship and other qualifications when they complete the mandatory juror qualification questionnaire,” McAleer told the New Jersey Globe.

“Those who advance are reminded of the eligibility requirements during jury orientation and are directly questioned about their citizenship during jury selection by the judge and, as permitted, the attorneys,” he added.

Officials say there is no evidence that noncitizens have served on juries since the additional safeguards were implemented.

But that does not explain why approximately 75,000 noncitizens are being swept into the jury-summons process every year.

It also raises serious questions about the reliability of government databases used to administer elections and jury selection.

The Department of Homeland Security amplified the report Saturday, writing:

75,000 NONCITIZENS are called for jury duty in New Jersey EVERY YEAR. It’s clear New Jersey’s government databases are unreliable in ensuring only Americans are participating in our civic institutions.

75,000 NONCITIZENS are called for jury duty in New Jersey EVERY YEAR.

It’s clear New Jersey’s government databases are unreliable in ensuring only Americans are voting in AMERICAN elections and serving in jury pools. pic.twitter.com/BWMOUMg7Mn

— Homeland Security (@DHSgov) July 25, 2026

As The Gateway Pundit previously reported, Democrat Governor Mikie Sherrill recently admitted that a “serious software error” in the state’s motor-vehicle system resulted in approximately 6,600 people who explicitly indicated they were not American citizens being registered to vote between June 2023 and June 2024.

According to Sherrill, fewer than 400 of those improperly registered individuals subsequently voted.

The Justice Department has since opened an investigation into the scandal.

Sherrill attempted to blame IDEMIA, the software contractor that transmits voter-registration information collected by the Motor Vehicle Commission.

But IDEMIA fired back, explaining that it merely transmitted the applications and that New Jersey’s own Division of Elections was responsible for reviewing the information and determining voter eligibility.

“Information submitted by IDEMIA must still be validated and adjudicated by the Division of Elections,” the company said, as The Gateway Pundit reported.

The jury duty numbers explode the scope of the same underlying failure. The same polluted government databases that dumped noncitizens onto the voter rolls are feeding the jury pools.

Voting has no equivalent real-time citizenship verification. Automatic voter registration through the Motor Vehicle Commission simply trusts the system, a system that has repeatedly proven it cannot distinguish a citizen from a noncitizen.

Micah Rasmussen of Rider University’s Rebovich Institute told The New Jersey Globe, the fact that jury selection is now demonstrably contaminated “widens the scope of the problem and heightens the need to act quickly and thoroughly to resolve it.”

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Conservative writer and political analyst Mollie Hemingway took a shot at teacher unions during a recent appearance on FOX News, claiming that no other institution in America has done as much damage.

It is an indisputable fact that the teacher unions donate almost exclusively to Democrats and work tirelessly to get Democrats elected.

It often seems as though these unions are more focused on elections than they are on the education of America’s children.

From The Federalist:

“No other institution in America has caused as much damage as the teachers unions over the last 50 years,” Federalist Editor-in-Chief Mollie Hemingway said on Outnumbered. “Part of it is that they are so politically biased. They’re one of the biggest arms of the Democratic Party. They run many of their get-out-the-vote campaigns and are just a major funder of the Democratic Party.”

See the video below:

“No other institution in America has caused as much damage as the teachers unions in the last 50 years,” Mollie Hemingway said. pic.twitter.com/aJGwyz6eBy

— The Federalist (@FDRLST) July 23, 2026

There is some good news here.

Recent analysis found that the teacher unions are losing influence.

From WLNS News:

Teacher union power slipping nationally, MSU researchers say

Teachers’ unions have lost ground in education politics across most of the country since 2012, according to a new Michigan State University analysis, even as Michigan’s union strength increased two spots to rank 18th nationally.

The report, published by the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, found that 45 states and Washington, D.C. saw declines in the share of K-12 teachers who are union members, compared with 2012, the last time the researchers measured union strength nationwide. The findings suggest that other interest groups are increasingly shaping education policy alongside, or instead of, teachers’ unions.

“We often assume the teachers’ unions are the most influential actors in state education politics, but that narrative is no longer true in many places,” Rebecca Jacobsen, a professor in MSU’s Department of Educational Administration in the College of Education, said in a release…

Researchers noted that union strength was loosely tied to state political control. In the 2012 report, four of the strongest union states had Democratic governing trifectas, and researchers have said that figure has grown. The report also found that states with higher poverty rates tend to have weaker unions, regardless of membership or revenue.

Most people probably wouldn’t even notice the activity of these unions if they were more politically balanced, but they’re just not.

It’s a serious issue.

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A three-judge panel of the radical First Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday denied the Trump administration’s emergency request to keep President Trump’s landmark $100,000 H-1B visa payment requirement in effect while the government appeals a lower court ruling that tossed it out.

The order leaves in place U.S. District Judge Leo T. Sorokin’s June 8 decision vacating the entire policy.

Sorokin, an Obama appointee, had ruled that the fee exceeded executive authority under the Administrative Procedure Act and was unconstitutionally ultra vires.

President Trump issued Proclamation 10973 on September 19, 2025, specifically to stop the rampant abuse of the H-1B program.

The proclamation found that employers had used the system to replace American workers with lower-paid foreign labor, driving down wages and undermining economic and national security.

It required the $100,000 payment to accompany new H-1B petitions for workers outside the United States, with limited exceptions for national interest cases. DHS and State Department officials then implemented the policy through fee schedules, FAQs, and related actions.

The 20 Democrat-led states that sued, California, Massachusetts, Arizona, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, Washington, and Wisconsin, claimed the fee would hurt their ability to staff public colleges, universities, schools, and healthcare systems.

Judge Sorokin agreed with the blue-state plaintiffs. He vacated the policy in full.

The Trump administration asked both the district court and then the First Circuit to stay that order pending appeal so the policy could remain in effect. The district court refused a full stay but granted a temporary administrative pause while the emergency motion was pending. On July 24, the First Circuit rejected the government’s request entirely.

The First Circuit panel, Chief Judge David J. Barron (Obama), Gustavo A. Gelpí (Biden), and Julie Rikelman (Biden), claimed the administration failed to make a “strong showing” it was likely to succeed on the merits.

They focused almost entirely on the claim that the $100,000 payment was an unauthorized tax-like burden requiring a clear congressional delegation, citing cases like Skinner while brushing aside the president’s broad statutory power under 8 U.S.C. §§ 1182(f) and 1185(a) to restrict the entry of aliens deemed detrimental to U.S. interests.

This is the same H-1B program The Gateway Pundit has repeatedly exposed as a scam that imports lower-paid foreign labor, often in IT and tech, to replace Americans.

Companies have taken thousands of H-1B approvals while laying off U.S. workers. The $100,000 fee was designed to force employers to value American talent instead of treating the visa system as a cheap labor pipeline.

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An Obama-appointed federal judge has handed Portland’s far-left political machine a major legal victory, denying the Trump Justice Department’s attempt to obtain police body-camera footage and internal records tied to allegations of anti-conservative viewpoint discrimination.

U.S. District Judge Michael H. Simon rejected the Justice Department’s motion to compel Portland officials to turn over evidence connected to protests outside the city’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility.

Simon accused the DOJ of acting in “bad faith and with unclean hands” and claimed the department’s request appeared intended to intimidate the Portland Police Bureau.

“The Court finds by clear and convincing evidence that the United States has brought this motion in bad faith and with unclean hands,” Simon wrote in his July 24 opinion. He added that the purported reasons for the nearly 30 document requests were “pretext.”

The extraordinary ruling effectively shields Portland officials from having to comply with the DOJ’s 29 demands for body-camera footage, police reports, complaints, internal communications, and other records—at least through this motion under Portland’s longstanding police-reform settlement.

The Gateway Pundit previously reported that Dhillon sent a scathing letter to Portland City Attorney Robert Taylor and Police Chief Bob Day following the controversial arrest of conservative journalist Nick Sortor.

Sortor was arrested outside Portland’s ICE facility in October 2025 after he said Antifa terrorists shoved him into a flower bed, damaged his camera, and threw punches at him.

Instead of arresting his attackers, Portland police handcuffed Sortor and charged him with disorderly conduct. The Multnomah County District Attorney’s Office reportedly dropped the charge days later.

The DOJ was also investigating Portland police’s handling of the reported assault on conservative journalist Katie Daviscourt, who was struck in the face with a flagpole outside the ICE facility and left with a black eye.

In its October 3 letter, the Justice Department demanded:

• Unredacted body-camera footage involving Sortor’s arrest.
• Body-camera footage connected to the reported assault on Daviscourt.
• Incident reports, arrest reports, force reports, and after-action reviews.
• Complaints concerning the police response to both incidents.
• Internal communications concerning Portland’s zoning actions against the ICE facility.
• Communications containing directions to officers responding to demonstrations outside the facility.

Dhillon sent a second letter on October 29 containing 22 additional demands.

The DOJ argued that the records were necessary to determine whether Portland police had violated a provision of the city’s consent decree requiring the bureau to apply its policies uniformly and hold officers accountable.

But Simon refused to order Portland to comply.

The consent decree originated from a 2012 Justice Department lawsuit accusing Portland police of using unnecessary or excessive force against people suffering from mental illness or experiencing a mental-health crisis.

Simon declared that the case “has never been about viewpoint discrimination, or even any issues arising under the First Amendment.”

“If, as the United States then argued, claims that Portland Police Officers may have engaged in a pattern of excessive force against persons of color were ‘outside the scope’ of this lawsuit, it is difficult to accept the United States’ current assertion that alleged political viewpoint discrimination is within the scope of the current action,” Simon wrote.

However, the judge acknowledged that whether the DOJ possessed authority under the agreement to investigate potential viewpoint discrimination presented a “close question” of contract interpretation.

Rather than decide that question, Simon invoked the equitable doctrine of unclean hands and accused the Justice Department of pursuing the records for an improper purpose.

Simon pointed to the timing of the DOJ’s first demand letter, which was sent on October 3, 2025, the same day Judge Karin Immergut heard Oregon and Portland’s request to block President Trump’s National Guard deployment.

Two high-ranking Portland police officials had submitted declarations supporting Oregon and Portland in that separate lawsuit.

“To the Court, this reasonably appears to be a not-so-subtle signal from the United States Department of Justice to the Portland Police Bureau that if it continued to assist the plaintiffs in the case of Oregon v. Trump, the United States Department of Justice could make matters quite difficult, burdensome, and expensive for the Portland Police Bureau,” Simon claimed.

The Obama judge also seized on Dhillon’s social-media response after Attorney General Pam Bondi ordered a full investigation into Sortor’s arrest.

As The Gateway Pundit reported at the time, Dhillon wrote:

“Portland: It’s FO time. Buckle up.”

Simon characterized the post as a threat.

“That is neither language nor tone of a good faith investigation by the United States Department of Justice,” he wrote. “Instead, it exhibits all the hallmarks of a threat and attempted intimidation.”

Simon also cited Dhillon’s repost of a message stating that Judge Immergut “must be impeached,” calling that statement “threatening conduct” as well.

The optics surrounding Simon’s ruling are impossible to ignore.

The Gateway Pundit previously reported that Simon recused himself from Oregon’s National Guard lawsuit after the Trump administration raised concerns about public comments made by his wife, Democrat Congresswoman Suzanne Bonamici, opposing the troop deployment.

That National Guard lawsuit was subsequently assigned to Judge Immergut.

Simon nevertheless continued overseeing the separate Portland police consent-decree case and has now used Portland’s challenge to the National Guard deployment as a central reason for accusing the Trump DOJ of retaliation.

The ruling does not determine whether Portland police actually engaged in viewpoint discrimination. It does not exonerate the bureau over its handling of Sortor’s arrest or the reported assault on Daviscourt.

It only denies the Justice Department’s attempt to compel the records through the existing consent decree.

In other words, the allegations that Portland police treated conservative journalists differently from violent far-left agitators remain unanswered, while Portland keeps the records out of the DOJ’s hands.

For context, Michael H. Simon is the same judge who issued a temporary restraining order earlier this year barring federal officers from using tear gas, pepper balls, and other crowd-control munitions at Portland’s ICE facility, even as protesters escalate their attacks on federal agents and the facility.

Read Judge Simon’s complete order here.

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