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Republican Commissioner Nathan Simington of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) repeated his remarks in Romanian Thursday in a jab at Democratic FCC Commissioner Anna Gomez during the agency’s monthly open meeting of commissioners.

Gomez has a habit of repeating her remarks in Spanish during meetings, which some viewed as wasting time and labor, Joe Verde, a former Simington staffer, told the Daily Caller News Foundation. The agenda for the meeting included regaining authority to auction off parts of the electromagnetic spectrum.

“I’m pleased that the commission is back in business, so to speak. This proceeding represents the kind of thinking that has lately been missing from the commission: A practical, results-oriented action… repurposing existing commercial brands to increase spectral efficiency is one key way to address it,” Simington said. “There are others, of course, and I am counting on the good offices of Congress and the NTIA [National Telecommunications and Information Administration] to help us get there. Yet, in the meantime, it’s fair to say that, yeah, I’m thinking we’re back. This item has my support. And now, my remarks in Romanian.”

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Simington proceeded to repeat his speech in Romanian, taking a minute and six seconds to deliver the remarks that took all of 30 seconds to deliver in English, forcing an American Sign Language interpreter to stand by.

“I wasn’t sure that was at an end, but thank you very much,” FCC Chairman Brendan Carr said before turning to Gomez.

“That was super-cool,” Gomez responded to laughter from other commissioners, before adding, “As we would say in Spanish, y tu mamá también [and your mom, too].”

Gomez did not repeat her remarks in Spanish during the Thursday meeting before Simington spoke, but she did deliver remarks in Spanish later in the meeting after speaking in English.

Simington was appointed to the FCC by President Donald Trump in 2020, after serving with the National Telecommunications and Information Administration, according to his official biography. He was known to avoid attending diversity events held by other members of the commission, Verde told DCNF.

Gomez was placed on the commission after being confirmed by the Senate in September 2023. She previously served for 12 years at the FCC in various capacities and was deputy director of NTIA during the Obama administration, according to her biography.

“Simington’s actions today shed a light on how ridiculous it is that Gomez has continued this posture of reciting a speech she already spoke,” Verde said.

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Federal judges ruling against President Donald Trump’s recent executive actions have been almost entirely appointees of his two Democrat predecessors.

Some were previously activists, others were steeped in Democrat politics, and one is a former clerk for then-Judge Sonia Sotomayor. These judges have issued rulings to block Trump’s policies on immigration, federal spending, the Department of Government Efficiency, and other matters.

Plaintiffs have been “forum shopping” to attain more favorable rulings, said Curt Levey, president of the Committee for Justice. Forum shopping means they search for specific parts of the country where judges are more likely to be liberal and sympathetic to their case.

“They are trying to flood the zone and make it hard for the Trump administration to pursue its agenda,” Levey told The Daily Signal. “They are likely to win at the district level. And liberal districts are often in liberal circuits. So, in some cases, they can win at the circuit level and give the appearance that the Trump administration is under siege. Another advantage to flooding the zone is that the Supreme Court is limited. It only hears about 75 cases per year.”

Some of the judges ruling against Trump include:

A one-time major Democrat donor, U.S. District Judge John McConnell Jr. of Rhode Island, recently sided with a group of Democrat state attorneys general in a lawsuit to block Trump’s attempted funding freeze for numerous federal grants to nongovernmental organizations.

From 2000 until when President Barack Obama nominated him to the federal bench in 2010, McConnell contributed about $60,000 to Democrat candidates. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce opposed his nomination, noting his long career as a lawyer who sued over lead paint and tobacco, Forbes reported.

McConnell was a former treasurer of the Rhode Island Democratic Committee and chaired the campaign of Providence Mayor David Cicilline, according to the Providence Journal. Cicilline was later elected to the U.S. House.

Notably, the judge previously rejected a lawsuit to remove candidate Trump from Rhode Island’s 2024 ballot.

In a separate case targeting the order on the funding freeze, U.S. District Judge Loren AliKhan of the District of Columbia, an appointee of President Joe Biden, imposed a restraining order on the freeze. AliKhan was previously on the District of Columbia Court of Appeals and the D.C. solicitor general.

U.S. District Judge Amir Ali of the District of Columbia, a Biden appointee, enforced a restraining order to prevent the spending freeze on foreign aid disbursed by the State Department and the U.S. Agency for International Development. In 2020, Ali contributed $1,500 to Biden’s presidential campaign, according to OpenSecrets.org. He also made modest contributions to numerous other Democrat candidates.

Before his nomination, Ali was the executive director of the MacArthur Justice Center, an organization initially founded to oppose the death penalty but that has since expanded to other criminal justice issues.

U.S. District Judge Theodore Chuang of the District of Maryland, an Obama appointee, blocked the Trump administration from conducting immigration raids and arrests at certain houses of worship.

During much of Obama’s time in office, Chuang was the deputy general counsel for the Department of Homeland Security. Before that, from 2007 to 2009, he was the deputy chief investigative counsel for the Democrat majority on the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. He was also a past contributor to several Democrat candidates, including giving $750 to Obama’s 2008 campaign and $1,250 to the 2004 presidential bid of Democrat John Kerry.

U.S. District Judge Jeannette Vargas of the Southern District of New York recently halted DOGE’s access to Department of Treasury records.

Biden nominated Vargas, a former New York federal prosecutor, last year. Vargas contributed $2,000 to Biden’s 2020 campaign, and before that, gave $750 to Democrat Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign. Before working in the Justice Department, Vargas clerked for then-U.S. 2nd Circuit Appeals Court Judge Sotomayor from 2001 to 2002.

U.S. District Judge Jamal Whitehead of the Western District of Washington state blocked Trump’s executive order suspending refugee admissions. Biden nominated Whitehead in 2023. During the Obama administration, Whitehead was the senior trial attorney at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

U.S. District Judge Deborah Boardman of the District of Maryland sided with the American Federation of Teachers, a union, to block DOGE from accessing information from the Office of Personnel Management and the Department of Education regarding student loans.

Biden nominated Boardman, a former federal public defender, in 2021. She has been a moderate donor to numerous Democrat campaigns, including giving $500 to Obama’s 2008 campaign and $500 to Clinton in the same campaign cycle.

U.S. District Judge Lauren King of the Western District of Washington, a Biden appointee, temporarily blocked the Trump administration’s restrictions on federal funding for “sex change” treatments for minors.

U.S. District Judge George O’Toole of the District of Massachusetts, an appointee of President Bill Clinton, issued a similar ruling to block the Trump administration’s restriction on sex change funding. He was recommended for the seat by then-Sen. Ted Kennedy, D-Mass.

U.S. District Judge Adam Abelson of Maryland, Biden appointee, blocked Trump’s executive order ending federal support of “diversity, equity, and inclusion” programs, or DEI. A very modest donor to Democrat candidates, he was previously a magistrate judge and in private practice in Maryland.

Some notable exceptions to the Democrat-appointed judges handing Trump court losses: There have been at least four court rulings on Trump’s order scrapping birthright citizenship, with two of those rulings coming from Republican appointees—Judges John Coughenour of Washington state and Joseph Laplante of New Hampshire. They were nominated by Presidents Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush, respectively.

[Editor’s note: This story originally was published by The Daily Signal.]

A Minnesota public school’s scheming for a student trip that would go full racist and exclude whites because of their skin color has been exposed. And the trip has been canceled.

The plan for the trip for only students who “identify as a person of color” was named in a federal civil rights complaint against Highland Park High School.

Mark Perry, a retired professor, spotted the racist plan on social media and took action.

“They maybe should have understood this was a problem before, but at least once it was brought to their attention,” said in an interview with a local television station.

“That’s the least I can expect then, that then they would do the right thing and comply with federal Civil Rights Laws – which in this case was cancelling the program or maybe it was too late to open it up to all students,” he said.

A report in the Daily Mail explained he was told the trip was canceled within hours of having filed the complaint.

The report said the trip was intended to expose students to “digital marketing and advertising careers.”

Perry told a Minnesota publication that the plan violated Title VI of the federal Civil Rights Act, as well as the district’s own non-discrimination policy.

“Just as it would be illegal and objectionable for [Highland Park Senior High School] to offer a field trip that explicitly excluded students of color… it’s equally illegal and objectionable to host a racially segregated field trip exclusively for ‘students of color,’” Perry had told school Principal Winston Tucker and BrandLab, the agency organizing the trip, in a letter.

Perry is not unfamiliar with the federal law, as he works with Do No Harm as a civil rights advocate.

“There is no ‘good’ form of discrimination, regardless of your intentions. It’s all bad and illegal when it violates the law,” he explained in a website statement.

A district official said, in a statement, “St. Paul Public Schools values our partnerships with community organizations like the BrandLab and the opportunities they provide for our students. The district remains committed to providing post-secondary and career-related opportunities to all of our students to pursue their passions.”

Spokeswoman Erica Wacker explained that the district tries to follow the rules, explaining that while the district’s National African American Parent Involvement Day is “designed for a specific group,” it actually is “open to anyone.”

 

Feb. 28, 2025: 9:53 a.m.:

Hollywood and Washington DC exposed as two sides of the same corrupt coin

Hollywood and Washington DC both pic.twitter.com/eVtIvLgKJe

— Deep₿lueCrypto (@DeepBlueCrypto) February 28, 2025

Feb. 27, 2025: 11:00 p.m.:

Feb. 27, 2025: Election Reform Highlights

• The America First Policy Institute’s Center for Litigation sent letters to the Wisconsin Elections Commission and local officials, demanding an end to early-voting poll-location gerrymandering in Madison, La Crosse, and Oshkosh.

• Nevada Governor Joe Lombardo proposed legislation requiring mail-in ballots to be received by Election Day, aiming to expedite election results reporting.

• The New Jersey Assembly passed two election reform bills, including significant changes to primary ballot design, now awaiting Governor Phil Murphy’s approval.

• Austria’s three main centrist parties reached a coalition agreement to form a government, excluding the far-right Freedom Party, which had won the most seats in the recent parliamentary election.

• Protesters in Michigan, led by Rep. Bill G. Schuette, urged Governor Gretchen Whitmer to schedule a special election to fill the vacant Senate District 35 seat, emphasizing the need for representation for its 270,000 residents.

Feb. 27, 2025: 11:00 p.m.:

Feb. 27, 2025: MAHA Highlights

• Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. praised Steak ‘n Shake for switching to 100% beef tallow in their fries, aligning with the “Make America Healthy Again” initiative.

Feb. 27, 2025: 8:50 p.m.:

Senator John Kennedy sponsoring a resolution to rescind Biden era BLM rule 

Feb. 27, 2025: 8:30 p.m.:

Tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China to kick on on March 4

Feb. 27, 2025: 8:15 p.m.:

U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent believes 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act will renew, but U.S. economy basically needs overhaul

Feb. 27, 2025: 8:10 p.m.:

NPR CEO Katherine Maher: ‘the truth might have become a bit of a distraction’

NPR’s CEO came here to lecture us why we should trust her taxpayer funded rag. So we pulled up our truck outside to remind everyone what they’re funding. pic.twitter.com/gysGVeVS6b

— Justine Brooke Murray (@Justine_Brooke) February 27, 2025