June 5 2021
 

Good morning from Washington, where educrats and politicians seem intent on making race the most important thing in the nation’s classrooms. Jon Butcher has one concerned mother’s story. The future doesn’t look so good for rogue prosecutors, Cully Stimson and Zack Smith predict. Plus: Facebook keeps Trump on ice; business consultants exploit cancel culture; and the antisemitism threat in America. Forty years ago today, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention unknowingly signals the advent of the AIDS crisis in a report on five cases of a rare lung infection in young, otherwise healthy gay men in Los Angeles. Enjoy the weekend.

 
 
 
COMMENTARY
Teachers at Her Son’s School Are Fixated on Race. She Wants to Know, ‘What Is the Endgame?’
By Jonathan Butcher

Rebekah Randall’s son’s teacher wrote the letters “BLM” on the board one day to describe something that inspires her, a reference to the Black Lives Matter movement.
COMMENTARY
Philadelphia Isn’t Los Angeles: Putting a Rogue Prosecutor’s Primary Win Into Context
By Zack Smith

Larry Krasner, one of several George Soros-backed rogue prosecutors in the country, wins a Democratic primary despite a radical, pro-criminal, anti-victim approach to the job.
NEWS
Facebook Extends Its Ban of Trump to 2 Years or More
By Fred Lucas

“If these companies continue to actively insert themselves between the user and content, they should target legitimate purveyors of violence like the antisemitic ayatollah of Iran,” says Kara Frederick.
COMMENTARY
The New Business of Woke Corporate Consulting
By Mark Hemingway

A growing field of progressive groups and personalities exploit cancel culture for both political gain and personal profit.
COMMENTARY
Jews Can’t Let America Turn Into Another Europe
By David Harsanyi

The kinds of lies and smears being normalized and spread by the likes of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and other leftists on the floor of Congress have manifested in harassment and violence against Jews.
COMMENTARY
ICYMI: Black Lives Matter Leader Resigns but Organization’s Radical, Marxist Agenda Continues
By Mike Gonzalez

Patrisse Cullors led the main Black Lives Matters group to significant success, including assembling a $100 million war chest and getting critical race theory curricula distributed in 14,000 school districts.
 
     
 
LOGO-CHARCOAL_75percent.jpg

How are we doing?
We welcome your comments, suggestions, and story tips. Please reply to this email or send us a note at [email protected].

The Daily Signal
214 Massachusetts Avenue, NE
Washington, DC 20002
(800) 546-2843

 
 

Add [email protected] to your address book to ensure that you receive emails from us.

You are subscribed to this newsletter as [email protected]. If you want to receive other Heritage Foundation newsletters, or opt out of this newsletter, please click here to update your subscription.