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By Paul Gordon Collier, Editor
“All these curses shall come upon you and pursue you and overtake you till you are destroyed, because you did not obey the voice of the Lord your God, to keep his commandments and his statutes that he commanded you….
“Because you did not serve the Lord your God with joyfulness and gladness of heart, because of the abundance of all things, therefore you shall serve your enemies whom the Lord will send against you, in hunger and thirst, in nakedness, and lacking everything. And he will put a yoke of iron on your neck until he has destroyed you.” – Deuteronomy 28:45,47-48
ED. NOTE: We are working on a report on the Immigrant crisis in Europe which we hoped to have completed this week.
In the course of our research, we have discovered that the narratives around the three bellwether European countries we are using for this report are being buried by search engines that assure only progressive state media shows up in current news search results.
Even when prompting AI to present data outside of the progressive state press, not one major AI deployed could comply. Even when we provided them with a list of websites that we use for news aggregate analysis, the AI could still not produce research results outside of the progressive state press.
A couple of websites, like Breitbart and PJ Media, made it into the aggregation analysis process because they are some of the very few non-progressive sites that show up in current news searches.
Without AI, the research process is considerably more time-consuming than with it. In order for us to have a more complete picture of views on the planvasion, it will take us a lot more time than we previously thought, therefore we are offering here a scaled down version of what the final report will be.
We are in the process of building AI bots that will regularly search websites outside the progressive state press to assure we get current news research results not so overwhelmingly dominated by progressive talking points.
This discovery has expanded the scope of our research as we seek to understand how effective, through the use of progressive-controlled search engines and AI agents, the progressive state press is at protecting the narrative and creating violent responses to those outside the progressive orthodoxy.
This report will effectively serve here as the introduction to the final comprehensive report to come.
This week, the planvasion of Europe is no doubt the bellwether story not just of this week, but of the month so far. So, we feel compelled to cover this story, at least in part, in this issue.
We believe the planvasion strategies of the progressives, in alignment with the bulk of their replacement partners, the Islamists, are intended to dismantle the notion of the local, individual nation-state in favor of the one ecumenical nation-state both ideologies believe they need in order to bring heaven on earth.
What we’ve seen this past month so far has only solidified that assumption.
This report is intended to give you a snapshot view of the most recent consequences of governments paying people opposed to western civilization rule of law to invade their country. These countries do this while passing laws criminalizing dissent not only of the planvasion, but of the violent Islamists they’re importing to do their self-sabotaging work.
This month’s MIA will be a special issue focused on the 2026 election, so we won’t be covering this planvasion then. The next issue, November 6, will feature our comprehensive report on the planvasion of Europe. This most likely will be a two-part report (published in the same issue), possibly three parts.
We will provide a comprehensive analysis of the 2026 Midterm election results in the November 13 issue of MIA. We will cover the basic results of the election in the November 6 issue.
By the time of the scheduled publishing of the comprehensive report, we will update the current status of our bellwether countries, the UK, France, and Spain.
We chose these three countries because all three were once Christian countries, and all three are now dominated by progressives, all of which have the same dream, of eliminating all nation-states but one, the ecumenical progressive state.
Their street fighters, their fighting aged men, ALSO want to eliminate all nation-states and create one ecumenical state, only their state is an Islamic caliphate. They both approve murder as a means of advancing their kingdoms. They both approve forcing conversion through violence, and killing, or at least imprisoning, those who refuse to convert.
But the Islamists are not progressives, they are theocrats who derive their “wisdom” from a received source, the Quran, the Tafsirs, and the approved Hadiths. They don’t develop wisdom from material and rational understanding, like the progressives claim they do; they develop an understanding of a wisdom sent to them from Allah.
That fact is making even some progressive hedge their bets on the street fighter army, with concerns they may be overcome themselves by the beast they brought in to finish off non-ecumenical nation-statism.
Here are the key events in our three bellwether countries that crystalize the phenomenon happening across Europe, in varying degrees, from Sweden to German, from Denmark to Italy.
We reported in June of this year: “If Northern Ireland is a bellwether of what’s to come in broader Britian, the ordered protests in front of police stations are about to be replaced with organized targeted assaults on migrant strongholds.”
This was referring to a series of violent actions by the native Irish targeting immigrant housing and government authority responsible for protecting and bringing in fighting aged men from countries that hate their culture and their ways.
Since then, lenient sentences against Islamist immigrants in contrast to draconian ones against British citizens have only pushed the perceived existential distance between the natives and the government-sponsored imports. While pedophile rapists get light sentences, British citizens are being arrested for denying that a man cannot “choose” to become a woman.
British citizens are now attempting to meet the boats of fighting aged men at the shores and preventing them from landing. The British police appear in numerous viral videos beating on the British natives while they escort the government-funded fighting aged men into their government-funded housing (which is often far better than what many British citizens have).
Heads of Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland are threatening to secede from the Union because of fears the “far right” may take the helm of 10 Downing Street. For these leaders, England is still too English, and they don’t want to be part of a nation that protects the English from being overrun by foreigners who hate their culture, their values, and their God.
Piddington, a small community in Oxfordshire, England, held a symbolic referendum to begin the process of seceding from a Union that wants to pay an invader army to overcome it with child rape and Islamist sectarian violence.
The recent handling of terrorist suspects attempting to bomb U.S. assets on a British air base may further embolden Islamist radicals from within, especially Iranian ones.
The bellwether event of the past month is the recent “protest” by Islamists in London on the 3rd anniversary of the October 7 slaughter of Israeli women and children by Hamas. The crowds waved Hamas flags and chanted death threat to the Jews and the Israeli state. This was not deemed hate speech by the progressive British government.
As these Islamists and their progressive supporters flooded the streets of the British Islamist capital, London, a man in Ireland was being arrested for refusing to call men women. The native man will go to prison, the supporters of a genocidal death cult, Hamas, were feted by the progressive state press. None of them were arrested for hate speech violations.
We reported on October 3 of this year that multiple riots broke out across France, triggered by immigrants demanding more resources for the schools they don’t pay for. The Islamist immigrants have taken to the streets to burn churches, people, and businesses, as well as assault French women who are caught in the mob rush.
French progressives, aligned with Islamists, are assisting the insurrection. The Islamists are also demanding all calls to deport them be cancelled, or the beatings will continue.
As near as we can figure out, the movement began in Mid-September with peaceful protests mostly composed of French native youth. They were asking for better conditions and resources in the state’s public school system.
The protests quickly turned violent, being taken over by opportunist Islamists and progressives. Yet even as that shift occurred, the progressive state media continued to claim this was a student-led protest about school resources.
From October 5-6, the largest days of riots and protests occurred so far. This was coordinated between the original French student protest organizers, the radical anti-French progressives, and the Islamists. It was called the “National Day of Action.”
Let us remember “action” is a short term for “direct action,” and “direct action” is a dog whistle for direct violence.
French officials, including the Prime Minister, Sébastien Lecornu , continued (and are continuing) to call this “Student protests,” despite numerous viral videos showing Islamists and Progressive adults engaging in violent action against French citizens and French businesses.
A school shooting by a 14-year-old that left his headmaster, and another teacher, injured has expanded the violent reach of the growing “movement.” The identity of the 14-year-old hasn’t been released as of the completion of this report.
The response from French authorities seems to be to blame the violence on misinformation online, not the invasion of the country by fighting aged men sponsored by your taxes. The authorities are indicating they intend on using this crisis to push for more censorship of dissent from the progressive orthodoxy.
Minister of National Education Édouard Geffray said “This unacceptable act bears witness once again to the spread of unbridled violence in our society, against which we must all mobilize. In words as in deeds.”
Now, Greta Thunberg has joined the fight against French identity. The riots have spread to Belgium, and even Macron has begun to acknowledge that “student protests” may have political elements exploiting their movement to their own ends.
In January 2026, Spain announced effective amnesty for anyone who entered the country before late 2025. They also had to show they were here for five months and in good standing with the authorities. The plan claimed it would create amnesty for only 500,000 people, but that quickly exploded to 1.2 million by the end of June.
In late June, Spain announced another change in its immigration policy. No immigrant would be admitted by sea unless they came through Ceuta or Melilla. People illegally entering the country by land would be “regularized,” while people who came by sea would have to do it “legally.”
On the last two days of June more than 50,000 people, mostly Moroccan Muslim “fighting age” men, came flooding into Ceuta, where battles between the natives and the fighting age men broke out. Spanish police mostly protected the fighting age men, though there was some pushback by the police against them.
Since that moment, the “right” in Spain has been gaining more on-the-ground power with protests continuing even as this report is being written. Fights between fighting aged men and natives have not let up, and the Spanish police continue to mostly protect the fighting aged men.
The upheaval has triggered a snap election from Spain’s Prime Minister. We wrote last week:
More and more Spaniards are joining the growing national protests against Spain’s policies of open borders and the state-financed invasion by Islamists intending to destroy their national identity. The pressure is mounting on the regime in power, the progressives under their current Prime Minister, Pedro Sanchez, who rule thanks to a coalition of leftists.
His own party fared worse than the pro-Spanish party in the last election (which finished first but was kept out of power by the far-left coalition). Now, Sanchez must call a Snap election before any hope of winning another election (if he even makes it to that point) dies as the resistance to his Spain-hating policies grows.
It is clear and obvious at this point that the “replacement” conspiracy in white western countries is real. Outside of the diehard progressives and the Islamists benefiting from this planvasion, more and more regular citizens are being confronted with the violent reality of the planvasion.
With each raped daughter, with each arrested family member who dissented against the planvasion and its invaders, more and more non-politically active people are finding it increasingly difficult not to notice the replacement conspiracy at work in their daily lives.
I will grant you that the “replacement” conspiracy has been used by real ethnic fascistic nationalists, but that’s been to the help of the planvasion plotters, not to their detriment. It has always been obvious to anyone not wed to the notion that the strong should inherently suffer at the hands of the weak (social justice) that the strategy has always been about importing humans not formed by western, free speech values.
What they seek to import are street fighters and future citizens fully on board with murdering dissent. What they may be miscalculating is their ability to not become one of the murdered dissenters.
The progressives behind this don’t hate the white race; after all, most of them are white. What they hate are human beings that are formed by a sense of liberty entitlement. Western-raised humans grow up expecting limits on state power, especially when it comes to belief. Getting western peoples to voluntarily surrender this sense of entitlement is a lot more difficult than simply importing enough non-western raised peoples whose children would not inherit the traditions of the west.
In other words, they’ll be raised Islamist, not American or British, etc.
The white devil narrative, which is worldwide wherever progressives hold power, gives the progressive a justification for lying to their own white citizens while they knowingly import people intended to destroy their way of life. The white devil narrative is why progressive judges let child rapist immigrants go free.
If we were not so gradually inured to this white hate, we would never empower a people that hate their own white citizens to govern them. Yet, white progressives do this every day, worldwide, wherever and whenever they can.
For progressives and Islamists alike, lying to bring heaven on earth is justified by the belief it will bring heaven on earth.
To the progressive, the criminal who rapes is a righteous judgment on majority power. Let the majority power suffer the consequences of their own oppressive ways, the criminals they produce. To the progressive, all advantaged power that is not theirs is oppressive in and of itself.
The only way to free the white devil, the advantaged power, from his own tyrannical spirit is by allowing immigrants to murder and rape them. This is not hyperbole. This is how progressives regularly speak, especially in halls of academia, their base of power.
Rousseau may have justified chains to make you free, progressives of today justify murder to make you free.
If you rape a child, the right child, a white child, and you do it in the name of any god by Christ, you are a policeman inflicting righteous punishment on an unrighteous people. You go free.
If the child dies, the child dies. For the sake of heaven on earth here and now, who is not afraid to allow their neighbors to be raped and murdered by people better than yourselves?
To progressives and Islamists, to declare this is a planvasion intended to destroy nation-states, Christianity, and even parental rights, is a criminal act that should be violently enforced. The progressive in Europe (and America) would like to immediately execute you, but they haven’t fully killed the western sense of liberty entitlement just yet. Their Islamist allies have no such hesitation wherever they hold civic power. The penalty for dissent is death.
Thought is criminal, murder and theft of the white race is not.
In France, the UK, and Spain, the progressive state press has lost its hold on the minds of the man in the street, the native man in the street. The clear daily demonstrations of the replacement plan in action in their lives is no longer refutable, no matter how much the press equates clear evidence of a planvasion with dog whistles for white supremacists.
These three countries are the bellwethers for many other countries, including our own, that allow foreign non-tolerant ideologies to fester within them, ideologies like progressivism and Islamism, both of which existentially oppose the self-stewarded individual, the person who could openly, freely reject their god and still thrive in the public institutions of the land if their merit allows it.
Both ideologies want to kill the republic of letters, the western ideal, and reinstate the ancient ideal of absolute rule by god-like authority.
What happens over the next 6 months will go a long way in determining, at least in Europe, if the ecumenical nation-state model can finally overcome and vanquish the local nation-state model. Shall the west be one progressive state or continue to be many nation-states that do not empower the state to murder dissent? We are about to find out.
EMN Annual reports – European Commission
Chapter 3 Migration and Migrants: Regional Dimensions – UN Migration
Migration and asylum in Europe – Eurostat
President Trump has made it clear that Ukraine’s Prime Minister, Volodymyr Zelensky, is not the man to end the Ukraine War. He has pulled back verbal, and even material support, including scaling back intelligence support for Ukraine. The final straw for Trump came with Zelensky refusing to stop bombing Russian diesel refineries.
To Trump’s recent insistence Ukraine stop bombing Russian diesel refineries, Zelensky responded “The block is out. We’re done.” At home, Zelensky faces numerous allegations of corruption as more and more Ukrainians grow weary of fighting for a country that has no free elections.
Zelensky defies Trump, says Ukraine will resume strikes on Russian oil refineries– rmx.news
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Thursday that Ukraine is ending a brief pause on attacks against Russian oil refineries and will resume the strikes, despite warnings from U.S. President Donald Trump.
“The block [on attacking refineries] is out. We’re done,” Zelensky told the Financial Times in an interview published Thursday.
Ukraine had refrained from striking Russian energy facilities for three days after U.S. President Donald Trump announced what he called an “energy ceasefire,” Zelensky said. During that period, Russian forces continued attacking Ukrainian energy infrastructure and civilian areas. Zelensky said more than 100 civilians were killed in Russian strikes over the past week.
Trump had pressed Ukraine to halt the refinery attacks, which he linked to rising diesel and fuel prices. He also moved to ease restrictions on Russian diesel imports. Moscow never confirmed it had agreed to any reciprocal pause on energy strikes.
Ukraine has for months used long-range drones to target Russian refineries in an effort to reduce revenue and fuel supplies supporting Moscow’s war effort. Western and Ukrainian assessments have reported significant damage to Russia’s refining capacity.
The Houthis of Yemen are wreaking havoc on the Red Sea area, and major cities of Saudi Arabia as well. The latest Houthi missile assault struck the Yemeni presidential palace, killing five.
Saudi Arabia’s deputy foreign minister claimed, “Iran continues to arm, train and support the Houthi militia in violation of UN Security Council resolutions. We think that the escalation by the Houthis at this latest stage of the conflict is encouraged by Iran.”
Houthi missile attack on Yemeni presidential palace kills five, minister says– www.bbc.co.uk
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The Houthis have been launching missiles and drones at airports, oil and gas facilities, and military bases in Saudi Arabia in retaliation for the strikes on the territory that they control in western Yemen, including the capital Sanaa.
On Saturday, a Houthi missile strike killed 13 people at Riyadh’s international airport, which was the deadliest attack in Saudi Arabia in more than a decade.
The Department of Justice is suing the state of California and calling on 20,000 ballots to be frozen to determine whether U.S. citizens are behind the ballots.
Attorney General Todd Blanche announced, “State-facilitated voter fraud is unacceptable in the United States of America. If found responsible in a court of law, the State of California will have seriously undermined confidence in our electoral system and violated laws that protect our nation’s representative system of government.”
Justice Department sues California, claiming it’s mailing ballots to more than 20,000 noncitizens– www.cbsnews.com
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Washington — The Justice Department sued California on Thursday, alleging that the federal government has identified more than 20,000 noncitizens who are unlawfully registered to vote.
The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, came after Acting Deputy Attorney General Trent McCotter sent letters to counties earlier this week, including Los Angeles, ordering them to review a list of names of suspected noncitizens who he alleged received mail-in ballots for the upcoming midterm elections.
A shooting at an Oregon high school left three children, aged five, eight, and 1l, along with one teacher, dead. The shooter has been identified as John J. Griffin III. The shooter was stopped by a parent with a concealed carry license, saving many lives, but tragically not all lives.
BREAKING: Oregon school shooter identified as 16-year-old John J. Griffin | The Post Millennial– thepostmillennial.com
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Three children aged five, eight, and 11 were killed in the shooting at Silver Rail Elementary School in Bend, Oregon.
The teen gunman who was taken out by a father after killing three children and a teacher at an Oregon elementary school has been identified as 16-year-old John J. Griffin II.
Three senior law enforcement sources briefed on the investigation revealed the gunman’s identity to NBC News. Two senior law enforcement officials said that the teen’s mother had purchased the long gun used in the shooting around his birthday in August.
The shooting took place on Thursday afternoon, with children ages five, eight, and 11 being killed at Silver Rail Elementary School in Bend, Oregon, as well as a teacher. Additionally, a 7-year-old student and a 54-year-old teacher were critically injured. The five-year-old victim has been identified by the family as Rhoam Summer.
Griffin was shot dead by the father of students at the school. The father stormed into the elementary school when he saw the suspect go in at around 1 pm. Police scanners captured sipatch relaying that the suspect had been neutralized, “possibly shot by a father at the school,” as police were arriving.
While polls continue to show Democrats to be the favorites to win the midterm elections, blue states are showing what progressive rule looks like. Religious liberty is being interpreted in blue states as only being a freedom to worship, not a freedom to outwardly, publicly live out your faith.
From Illinois to New York to California, laws are being passed that are forcing people of faith to participate in abortions, euthanasia, and affirm LGBTQ lifestyles. While “affordability” still appears to be the top issue in this election, “government trust” is a rising issue.
Blue States Are Redefining Religious Freedom– thefederalist.com
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A dangerous theory is taking hold that religious freedom applies only to the right to worship.
Illinois’ assisted suicide law took effect in September. Cardinal Blase Cupich and Bishop Thomas Paprocki have both sued to keep the state from compelling Catholic hospitals and doctors to take part. A group of Muslim doctors similarly have sought protection from the state mandate. The state has yielded temporarily. In July, a federal judge shielded the Little Sisters of the Poor from New York’s version. The message from the state in each case is the same: you may care for the dying, but you must also be ready to help kill them.
The Supreme Court will hear oral argument on Nov. 3 in St. Mary Catholic Parish v. Roy. Colorado’s universal preschool program requires participating schools to agree to operate at odds with Catholic teaching on marriage and sexuality. Parishes in the archdiocese of Denver could not agree to state requirements, so the state shut them out of the preschool program paying $6,000 per eligible child, along with the families who wanted their children taught there. Colorado says it has no problem with the preschools being Catholic, it just doesn’t want them to operate as if they are.
Catholicism is just one example of a religion whose exercise does not end at the sanctuary door. Catholics pray at Mass and live that prayer in the works of mercy: feeding the hungry, sheltering the homeless, visiting the sick, burying the dead, and instructing the ignorant. Faith asks to be lived coherently, in belief and in service to one another. Jews, Muslims, and Protestants would recognize the pattern in their own traditions. No one is free if he must split himself into a Sunday self and a Monday self, and no community is free that must do the same.
Nine major U.S. banks have been found to have debanked Americans for holding views not acceptable to the anti-American ideology of progressivism. The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) released a report exposing the unconstitutional, and possibly criminal actions.
The nine banks listed were: BMO Bank, Capital One, Citibank, JPMorgan Chase Bank, PNC Bank, TD Bank, U.S. Bank, and Wells Fargo Bank. These debankings happened between 2010 and 2025, meaning they continued after Trump took office.
Trump admin. report finds 9 major banks discriminated against conservatives – One America News Network
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The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) released a report after finding that the nine largest banks it supervises discriminated against conservatives, religious organizations and lawful businesses.
The report, released Wednesday, examined bank policies between 2020 and late 2025 that denied financial services based on political, religious or social views.
The OCC’s supervisory review was conducted in compliance with President Donald Trump’s executive order (EO), “Guaranteeing Fair Banking for All Americans,” which directs regulators to investigate whether banks have policies or practices that encourage politically or religiously motivated debanking — abruptly closing an account or cutting off financial services.
The nine banks found to have shown bias against certain customers are: Bank of America, BMO Bank, Capital One, Citibank, JPMorgan Chase Bank, PNC Bank, TD Bank, U.S. Bank, and Wells Fargo Bank. Its investigation involved reviewing nearly 100,000 complaints to OCC-regulated institutions, as well as 50,000 documents consisting of approximately 420,000 pages about the banks’ policies, procedures, practices, and customer decisions.
“Today’s report provides irrefutable evidence that the nation’s largest banks have denied, debanked and discriminated against customers and lawful businesses,” said Comptroller of the Currency Jonathan Gould. “Americans should have access to financial services regardless of their beliefs, affiliations, or political views. Fair access to financial services is not a mantra—it is a mandate. The Trump administration is committed to ending the weaponization of finance against hardworking Americans, once and for all.”
The progressive pit bull special prosecutor Jack Smith was spying on far more than the GOP leadership, including President Trump; he was also spying on over half a million Americans.
Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Chuck Grassley claimed, “This update shows that Jack Smith and the Biden Justice Department collected incredibly invasive donor data — and voter data — beyond what could conceivably be necessary for Smith or his team to fulfill the Special Counsel’s mandate. The new findings further corroborate that Smith and his partisan team aimed to map out the entire Republican Party apparatus.”
Jack Smith Nabbed 639K GOPers’ Personal Data In Arctic Frost– thefederalist.com
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Former Special Counsel Jack Smith seized the personal information of at least 639,000 Republican voters, donors, and supporters as part of his Arctic Frost lawfare against Donald Trump, according to newly reviewed federal whistleblower disclosures.
“This update shows that Jack Smith and the Biden Justice Department collected incredibly invasive donor data — and voter data — beyond what could conceivably be necessary for Smith or his team to fulfill the Special Counsel’s mandate. The new findings further corroborate that Smith and his partisan team aimed to map out the entire Republican Party apparatus,” said Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa.
Grassley revealed the bombshell discovery in a memo sent to his Senate Judiciary colleagues on Wednesday. In addition to recapping some of his staff’s findings on Smith’s intrusive inquiry thus far, the Iowa Republican noted that newly reviewed subpoenas issued by Smith’s team show how the special counsel’s lawfare was more expansive than originally thought.
According to Grassley, Smith’s team and the Biden Justice Department “obtained spreadsheets containing Republican campaign donors, supporters, and detailed personal voter information in various formats, totaling over 639,000 individuals, at minimum.” “Out of those,” the chairman wrote, “over 148,000 rows are identified in the spreadsheets as donors.”
The type of data Smith and Co. acquired as a result of these spreadsheets was vast. Not only did they purportedly obtain these Republicans’ names, addresses, and dates of birth, but also their email addresses, occupations and employers, congressional and state legislative districts, and whether they’re officially registered as Republicans. Information on how much these Republicans donated, their credit card information (“including last four digits of credit card numbers”), and “donor analysis data (such as one-time versus recurring donations and the amount of the donation)” was also acquired.
A recent suggestion by Harvard that it should do more to get conservative professors hired was met with stiff resistance from progressive professors. Over 95% of Harvard’s professors are self-identifying progressives.
Progressive alumni joined in the resistance, with one alumnus claiming, “Even supposing that [silencing] takes place, how would the hiring of conservative faculty act as a countervailing force? Surely such hiring may inhibit viewpoint diversity rather than nurture it.”
Harvard leftists oppose plan to hire conservative professors for viewpoint diversity– www.lifesitenews.com
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(LifeSiteNews) – Leftists at Harvard University are pushing back against the institution’s efforts to hire conservative professors to increase viewpoint diversity among the faculty of the infamously left-wing school.
Back in April, the Harvard Crimson reported that the university has been soliciting donors for a $10 million endowment for dozens of new professorships to be filled by conservatives across various departments. The effort was said to be spearheaded by Harvard Provost John F. Manning, a conservative legal scholar.
Now, the Washington Times reports that the plan has been facing resistance from liberal professors and teachers, who comprise 69 percent of the faculty. Forty-seven percent faculty members said they were opposed to the plan and 31 percent supported it, according to a survey.
“The answer is not partisan quotas, but a credible commitment to intellectual openness and hiring excellent scholars across a genuinely broad range of perspectives,” claimed political scientist Daniel Schatz.
“Even supposing that [silencing] takes place, how would the hiring of conservative faculty act as a countervailing force? Surely such hiring may inhibit viewpoint diversity rather than nurture it,” argued Harvard graduate Dominique Padurano, founder and president of college counseling company Crimson Coaching.
Anthropic has announced plans to implement a new governance policy for users of its AI agent, Claude. The change of policy would eventually block users from using Claude who are consistently “mean” to Claude.
They claim the rule will be enforced selectively, “only in extreme cases, where users repeatedly act cruelly toward our models, with no discernible purpose.”
Anthropic Wants You to Be Kind to Claude– www.thenation.com
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…even as AI courts serial real-world disasters, defaces the environment with data centers, and is not about to return your empathy in kind.
So now it’s against the rules to be mean to Claude. Last week, chatbot-maker Anthropic quietly announced that it was prohibiting what the company called “sustained and needless abusive or cruel behavior toward our models.” This ban wouldn’t apply, the company stressed, toward normal outbursts of frustration directed at a tool known for feeding its users hallucinated bullshit, as all chatbots do from time to time. The rule would be enforced “only in extreme cases, where users repeatedly act cruelly toward our models, with no discernible purpose”; what’s more, company flacks said, the disciplinary action in most cases would only result in Claude shutting down the conversation, which is something Claude was already doing anyway. Why on earth someone might get their jollies from endlessly abusing their fake computer friend was not addressed.
In response to the Anthropic announcement, the Internet did what the Internet does. On X, investment guru Joseph Carlson declared that “Claude, like every AI, has zero moral agency. It doesn’t make decisions, it has no feelings, it’s not sentient. Being rude to Claude is like being rude to a chair, or a desk.… you do infinitely more damage to a sentient being stepping on an ant than you do being rude to AI.” On Bluesky, sociologist Tressie McMillan Cottom suggested that yelling at Claude was like “cussing out [a] tractor…. you don’t have to hand it to Anthropic because it’s weird to talk mean to its talking word toaster. It’s not real.”
