Washington father confronts school board over child’s participation in anti-ICE walkout without his knowledge

"I was not given notice. I was not given an email. I was not given a call. You exposed him to real danger."

A Washington state father confronted his local school board this week after his son participated in an anti-ICE walkout without his knowledge.

Vance Glawe critizied members of the Highline School Board on Wednesday after hundreds of students took part in a February 2 walkout. Glawe said he had to go to the protest himself to remove his seventh-grade son from the event.

“My name is Vance Glawe and on the afternoon of February 2, 2026, my 14-year-old child called me. He was not at school. He was not sick. He was in the middle of White Center, Washington, in the middle of a protest that was organized for his middle school,” Glawe told the school board.

Glawe also accused the board of violating state law by allowing students to leave campus without notifying parents.

“RCW 28A 600035, by allowing them to leave and under Initiative 2081, the parental Bill of Rights, I have the right to know where my child goes,” Glawe said. “That was taken from me. I was not given notice. I was not given an email. I was not given a call. You exposed him to real danger. That’s neglect and that’s endangerment.”

On social media, Glawe said that Cascade Middle School Principal Emily Feldtmose only informed parents of the protest after it took place. “Nobody informed me that my child was going to enter a protest,” he said.

Glawe has since created a fundraiser on GiveSendGo to help cover legal expenses and to relocate, saying his son has received threats after his videos.

“I’m going to need some help with legal fees and relocation since I am now receiving death threats and I don’t feel my son is safe in this area anymore,” the fundraiser page stated. “I cannot bring my son back to school because kids are threatening to jump my son because of my video.”

https://thepostmillennial.com/washington-father-confronts-school-board-over-childs-participation-in-anti-ice-walkout-without-his-knowledge

Antisemitism training. Labor’s march to authoritarianism

In December, the NSW Labor government gave itself the power to ban street marches for an indefinite period. We saw what that meant on February 9 as violent police charged, maced, beat and arrested protesters against Herzog’s visit.

In January, the federal ALP introduced new hate speech laws, which confer unprecedented discretion on the government to criminalise speech and groups to which it objects. Now, in a further stride down its authoritarian road, the federal government is reported to be proceeding with plans for political training for Australian university staff.

According to several recent reports, the federal government has agreed that ‘antisemitism training’ will be a ‘key’ area in which universities’ response to antisemitism will be assessed. University employees will, apparently, be required to undergo indoctrination in the ideology of the pro-Israel lobby, which identifies Zionism and Judaism and treats critics of Israel as likely antisemites.

The training will involve ‘understanding of Jewish peoplehood, their attachment to Israel and identity beyond faith’ – the characteristically unclear phrasing of the government’s ‘Special Envoy to Combat Antisemitism, Jillian Segal, who is responsible for the ‘Antisemitism report card’ plan.

The thought police

Compulsory training in a political ideology befits a police state, not a notional democracy – a status that Minns, Albanese and the rest of the political establishment are undermining like none before them.

Amidst the uproar over Herzog’s visit, the move has not had the discussion it deserves. Requiring university staff to undergo ‘training’ in the ideology of Israeli apartheid is as unacceptable as it would have been to require training in that of South African apartheid or Hindu supremacism.

Compulsory training in any particular ideology – Zionism, fascism, liberalism – is a body blow against university independence.

Segal’s plan has been roundly criticised by the progressive side of politics, including by Jewish organisations, but has the support of the entire Zionist establishment and the major parties.

Stopping free inquiry

The plan was originally devised in mid-2025, but was put on hold after Segal was discredited by revelations of her family’s connections, through generous donations, with the far-right, anti-immigrant group Advance. Now, the ALP appears to be implementing it. Under the obligatory cover of combating antisemitism, the training is clearly intended to further attack genocide opponents in higher education.

The measure shows a flagrant contempt for the basic role of universities in a supposedly liberal society – the necessary cliché that the campus is a place where controversial ideas can be expressed and discussed, no matter what powerful political actors they alienate. Academic freedom is an ideal, not a reality, but it is still an essential principle of true intellectual work.

The extent to which it is observed is an indicator of the overall state of democracy in a country.

Little is currently known about how the antisemitism training will work in practice. Segal’s blueprint is – no doubt intentionally – extremely vague. Regardless of the form it takes, the training is designed to elevate anti-Jewish hate above all other kinds of racism as especially deserving of redress – what other form of racism has its own training? – and to enforce Zionists’ chauvinistic insistence that they are the only Jews worthy of the name.

Both intentions are profoundly racist.

How the training will be assessed is also unclear. We have no knowledge of what the consequences would be for the many university staff who will refuse to participate in Zionist indoctrination. We also have no inkling of the size of the financial penalties against non-compliant universities that Segal, in full Trumpian mode, wants to apply. According to Times Higher Education, they will be ‘significant’.

https://michaelwest.com.au/antisemitism-training-labors-march-to-authoritarianism/

Ex-Miss California Carrie Prejean Boller contests her removal from WH religious liberty panel

"Hey @DanPatrick, why didn’t you allow any Jewish Americans to come testify at the religious liberty hearing who don’t support political Zionism? If you truly care about combatting antisemitism you would have had Jewish Americans there who don’t support your political Zionist agenda which hijacked our hearing," Prejean wrote

Former Miss California Carrie Prejean Boller has been removed from the White House Religious Liberty Commission after a tense hearing on antisemitism that sparked a wave of conservative and Catholic responses.

The decision, announced this week by commission chair and Texas Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick, follows a panel session Monday that became contentious when Prejean Boller pressed witnesses on issues related to Israel and antisemitism.

Patrick described her conduct as an attempt to use the hearing to advance her own viewpoints.

Prejean Boller, who gained national prominence after her 2009 Miss California USA title, had appeared at the hearing wearing a Palestinian flag pin and challenged panel testimony by asking whether criticism of Israel should be equated with antisemitism.

Her remarks drew sharp reactions from several conservative Catholic leaders and commentators who welcomed her departure from the advisory body.

Prominent Catholic organizations criticized her characterization of Catholic views toward Zionism and her conduct during the session. Some conservative commentators also took to social media to condemn her appearance at the hearing, arguing it distracted from the commission’s focus on combating antisemitism.

Supporters of her removal pointed to the importance of solidarity with Jewish communities and longstanding U.S. support for Israel, framing her comments as at odds with those principles.

Prejean Boller, a recent Catholic convert, has defended her stance in public posts since her dismissal, asserting that her views reflect her personal conscience.

Catholic League President Bill Donohue is one of the religious leaders who supports her removal from the panel.

"Prejean Boller is a former Miss California and a convert to Catholicism," he wrote in an opinion piece on Wednesday. "She does not run a Catholic organization, has no Catholic credentials as an author or instructor, and indeed represents no one but herself. For her to say, without qualification, that ‘Catholics do not embrace Zionism,’ is presumptuous and arrogant."

Prejean Boller posted a message on Wednesday directed at Patrick on X, saying that the panel is Trump’s "Religious Liberty Commission, not yours,” and calling his action a “gross overstepping” of his role that aligned with what she described as “a Zionist political framework.” She vowed to attend the next hearing.

On Saturday, she criticized Patrick again on X.

"Hey @DanPatrick, why didn’t you allow any Jewish Americans to come testify at the religious liberty hearing who don’t support political Zionism? If you truly care about combatting antisemitism you would have had Jewish Americans there who don’t support your political Zionist agenda which hijacked our hearing," she wrote.

On Sunday, Prejean Boller posted on X about how she is not suicidal or depressed.

"For the record: I’m not suicidal, I love my husband, my family and friends support me, I love my children, I don't have depression, I don't drink alcohol, I don't take drugs, or any medication, I didn't get the Covid shot, I eat healthy, I'm in good health, I just had my car serviced, I am a practicing, devout Catholic, being spiritually advised by several priests. If anything to happens to me, Go Max," she wrote.

https://justthenews.com/government/white-house/ex-miss-california-carrie-prejean-boller-contests-her-removal-wh-religious

Cover up complete

No more Epstein files will be released, DOJ tells Congress

Attorney General Pam Bondi and Deputy Attorney General sent the letter to inform the leaders of the House and Senate judiciary committees Sens. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, and Dick Durbin, D-Ill., and Reps. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, and Jamie Raskin, D-Md. that it has completed its review and release of the appropriate records related to Epstein.

The six-page letter is meant to confirm that the department has "released all 'records, documents, communications and investigative materials'" in its possession, and includes lists of categories of records that have been released and withheld, a summary and basis for redactions, and a list of all government officials and politically exposed people in the documents that DOJ has released.

Congress in December passed the Epstein Files Transparency Act to require the Justice Department to release all unclassified records in a searchable and downloadable format.

While its deadline was Dec. 19, the department did not release the records until January, and when it did so, it was in a single release of a database that, while searchable, was not well-organized and or carefully redacted – including with the publication of the names of Epstein's victims.

Congress has also been permitted to review unredacted versions of the documents.

The letter comes days after Bondi was grilled by members of both parties in a Congressional hearing that included shouting matches between the attorney general and some members of the committee holding the hearing.

Among the several hundred names included in Saturday's letter are "all persons" whose names appear at least once in the released Epstein documents, Bondi and Blanche wrote.

"Names appear in the files released under the Act in a wide variety of contexts," they wrote. "For example, some individuals had extensive direct email contact with Epstein or [Ghislaine] Maxwell while other individuals are mentioned only in a portion of a document, including press reporting, that on its face is unrelated to the Epstein and Maxwell matters."

Among the names are Beyonce, Bill Cosby, Fidel Castro, Bruce Springsteen, Alyssa Milano and Diana Ross, Ben Shapiro and a host of other politicians, artists and business people and their spouses.

https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2026/02/15/epstein-files-released-list-names-bondi-blanche/4881771190174/