Happy Friday!

Did you watch Joe Biden’s press conference last night? We did, and are yapping about it in “Embattled Biden Faces the Press … and Calls Kamala Harris ‘Vice President Trump,” which should be up before long. (Yep. if you missed it. He actually said that … hours after confusing Zelenskyy for Putin.)

While so much attention has been focused on Biden’s noggin and nomination, we can’t lose sight of the White House’s woke policies being enacted through other branches of government.

Biden DOD Labeling Pro-Life Groups “Terrorists Organizations”?

Terrorists are crossing our border as easily as crossing the street. Terrorists continue posing a threat to our troops overseas. The terrorist nation of Iran is funding unrest on our streets. Church-bombing, innocent-beheading, theater-massacring terrorists are running loose.

But you know who the U.S. Department of Defense is training troops to recognize as terrorists? Pro-life organizations. An anti-terrorism briefing held at Fort Liberty (formerly Fort Bragg) in North Carolina on Wednesday listed several pro-life organizations as “terrorist groups,” including the National Right to Life Committee and Operation Rescue.

A tip of the cup to citizen journalist Sam Shoemate for getting hold of a slide from the training session.

An anti-terrorism brief was held on Fort Liberty (Bragg) today where they listed several Pro-Life organizations as “terrorist organizations.”

The slide you see here followed right after a slide about ISIS, a terror group in the Middle East.

The organizations labeled by the… pic.twitter.com/vlO6XjyGzE

— Shoe (@samosaur) July 11, 2024

According to Shoemate, that slide came right after one on ISIS.

That’s right: This woke military now equates peacefully pushing for an end to abortion with an organization responsible for the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of people.

Family Research Council head Tony Perkins is outraged. “This is insane!,” he tweeted, “Beyond alarming. Being pro-life, peacefully advocating for the sanctity of human life, and attempting to stop the murder of unborn children makes you a terrorist?”

“Woe to those [the Biden administration] who call evil good, and good evil; Who put darkness for light, and light for darkness; Who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!” Isaiah 5:20

And the woe continues at the DoD.

Report: Military Hiding DEI and LGBTQIA-Grooming Efforts

The military is hiding DEI indoctrination and LBGTQIA efforts targeting the children of military service members, according a new report from government watchdog OpentheBooks.

And not for nothing, but the Department of Defense also lied to Congress and the American people about dismantling its DEI department.

The harrowing report is called “Schools for Radicals: The Secret Push to Institute DEI Curriculums Within the Military’s K-12 Public Schools.”

Mad Doctors: Duke Medical School Declares Punctuality to Be Racist

Here’s a health tip: We might want to avoid doctors who graduated from Duke University Medical School, which has traded stethoscopes for silliness. As Fox News reports, it asserts that certain traits, like “timeliness,” “perfectionism,” and “individualism” are components of “white supremacy culture.”

The contention is found in a 2021 plan called “Dismantling Racism and Advancing Equity, Diversity and Inclusion in the School of Medicine.”

In the workplace, white supremacy culture explicitly and implicitly privileges whiteness and discriminates against non-Western and non-white professionalism standards related to dress code, speech, work style, and timeliness. Some identifiable characteristics of this culture includes perfectionism, belief that there’s only one right way, power hoarding, individualism, sense of urgency and defensiveness.

These ideas about “whiteness,” of course, come straight from neomarxist Critical Race Theory and have been circulating through many cultural institutions for years. In 2020, the National Museum of African American History and Culture (which is associated with the Smithsonian) included a graphic on its website listing several such “traits of whiteness.”

The Smithsonian had the good sense to remove the graphic and apologize for it four years ago. And yet it would seem that the administrators of Duke Medical School didn’t get that memo.

The medical industry is already harried, with doctors spending an average of 17 minutes with each of the dozens of patients they see per day. Anyone who’s been to a doctor’s office in recent memory likely has cooled their heels in the waiting room for a good while before being called back. And that’s the case even when doctors try to be “whitely” punctual.

Does anyone really want to find out what we might encounter if they just don’t try at all?

Update: Docs Prove HHS Put Unaccompanied Minors in Household Tied to MS-13

We mentioned the other day that HHS has put countless unaccompanied minors in homes that haven’t undergone proper background checks. On Thursday, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) released documents showing the Biden administration knowingly placed two illegal children with sponsors known to be associated with the vicious MS-13 gang.

The Latest on the Biden Boondoggle

Biden Resents Obama’s Effort to Push Him Out

Yesterday’s serving of Al’s Afternoon Tea talked about Barack Obama’s role in the effort to retire Joe Biden. The current resident of the Oval Office may not be all there mentally, but he’s aware enough to know what’s going on, and according to Morning Joe, it’s brought out The Big Guy’s longstanding resentment of the way Obama treats him.

Despite repeated WH denials of any Obama-Biden tension and the public bromance display, Biden friend Joe Scarborough says: "Joe Biden is deeply resentful of his treatment under not only the Obama staff but also the way he was pushed aside for Hillary Clinton" pic.twitter.com/o95DELNNS7

— Alex Thompson (@AlexThomp) July 11, 2024

That alone may be enough to keep Biden digging in his heels.

Biden Delegates Want Out?

Joe Biden may have earned enough delegates to win the Democratic presidential nomination, but can he keep them? Politico reports a few dozen delegates “are organizing a letter urging the DNC to change the rules to make the nomination vote a secret ballot and free delegates to vote their conscience.”

AXIOS: Schumer Tells Donors He’s Open to Another Nominee

Meanwhile, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer has told donors he’s open to another nominee, Axios has learned. Schumer is not only worried about Democrats losing the White House, but losing control of the Senate.

Should Joe Biden Drop Out?

Yesterday, The Stream asked our social media followers, “Should Joe Biden drop out of the 2024 election?”

As of yesterday afternoon, the vote was nearly two-to-one in favor of Biden staying in the race. There’s still time to vote.

Should Joe Biden drop out of the 2024 election?

— The Stream (@Streamdotorg) July 11, 2024

Along The Stream

Tom Sileo posts a new installment of “Service & Sacrifice: Pier Pressure.”

Coming up at 11 a.m., John Zmirak will ask, “Are Pro-Lifers Helpless, With Nowhere to Go?”

 

Al Perrotta is The Stream’s Washington bureau chief, coauthor with John Zmirak of The Politically Incorrect Guide to Immigration, and coauthor of the counterterrorism memoir Hostile Intent: Protecting Yourself Against Terrorism.