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The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has recently released a recruitment video this week. The United States intelligence agency statement to Americans within this video is to “command your space” and “be unapologetically you.”

A well-known sentiment that has had a lot of traction this year within many of the “woke” movements.

The recruitment video tells a story of an unnamed CIA official of being a daughter of immigrants to America.

“When I was 17 I quoted Zora Neale Hurston’s ‘How It Feels to Be Colored Me’ in my college application essay. The line that spoke to me stated simply, ‘I am not tragically colored. There is no sorrow dammed up in my soul, nor lurking behind my eyes. I do not mind at all,’” she recounted. “At 17, I had no idea what life would bring but Zora’s sentiment articulated so beautifully how I felt as a daughter of immigrants how I felt then and now. Nothing about me was or is tragic. I am perfectly made.”

“I am a woman of color. I am a mom. I am a cis-gendered Millennial who has been diagnosed with generalized anxiety disorder,” the CIA official said. “I am intersectional, but my existence is not a box-checking exercise. I am a walking declaration, a woman whose inflection does not rise at the end of her sentences, suggesting that a question has been asked.”

According to the unnamed official, she earned her position within the CIA.

“I used to struggle with imposter syndrome, but at 36, I refuse to internalize misguided, patriarchal ideas of what a woman can or should be. I am tired of feeling like I’m supposed to apologize for the space I occupy rather than intoxicate people with my effort, my brilliance,” she said. “I am proud of me, full stop. My parents left everything they knew and loved to expose me to opportunities they never had. Because of them, I stand here today a proud first-generation Latina and officer at CIA.”

“I am unapologetically you and I want you to be unapologetically you, whoever you are,”

#WednesdayWisdom

"I am unapologetically me. I want you to be unapologetically you, whoever you are. Whether you work at #CIA, or anywhere else in the world.

Command your space. Mija, you are worth it."

— CIA (@CIA) April 28, 2021

For many Americans, this video is troubling. It shows how much valuable time and resources that the United States’ intelligence agencies are WASTING while they focus on diversifying their workforce as if that is the problem.

Americans don’t care what race someone is when they are protecting our homeland and foreign interests. We aren’t interested in checking off boxes for a diversity sheet. THE CIA shouldn’t be run as a company. It is a government intelligence agency that should only focus on finding the absolute best person for the job of protecting Americans.

The CIA needs to drop this bogus ad campaign and get back to the real priority: finding intelligent individuals that are willing to go to great lengths to defend our homeland.

Apparently, Ghislaine Maxwell is suffering in prison and is being subjected to things so horrible that she’s even gotten a black eye. At least that’s what her lawyer said in a letter with an attached photo of the injury that was filed in court.

Attorney Bobbi Sternheim filed several documents along with a picture of Jeffrey Epstein’s former lover and business partner looking worse for wear while being held at NYC’s Metropolitan Detention Center.

From the photo it’s obvious she has a large bruise under her eye but there’s no real explanation as to how it got there. Maxwell’s lawyer submitted a letter to the judge stating that her client only noticed the bruise after catching her reflection in nail clippers since she isn’t allowed a mirror in jail.

https://youtu.be/S0wCU2LkG8g

According to Sternheim, Maxwell has no idea how she got the injury but prison officials aren’t buying that story. The lawyer claims that officials threatened to throw Maxwell in a Special Housing Unit unless she told the truth about the black eye.

Sternheim says if her client were to be placed in SHU it’s because “Ms. Maxwell needs protection from the very staff so intent on protecting her since she has no contact with anyone but staff.”

“There is concern that the bruise may be related to the need for Ms. Maxwell to shield her eyes [using a sock or towel] from the lights projected into her cell throughout the night,” Sternheim said and added that she was very concerned about her client’s sleep disruption with guards waking her every fifteen minutes to check on her breathing.

Sternheim has requested that prison officials forgo the 15-minute check-up because sleep deprivation is having an unhealthy effect on her “well-being and ability to prepare and withstand trial.”

China test-launched its new single-stage Long March 5B rocket last May, in the launch of the first leg of its space station ambitions. Now its massive 20-ton core is whipping around Earth in a low orbit and none of the experts have a clue on where it will land.

The core of the Long March 5B will reenter the Earth sometime next week as one of the “largest instances of uncontrolled reentry of a spacecraft and could potentially land on an inhabited area.”

It is estimated that the roughly 100-foot object is orbiting Earth every 90 minutes and zips past north of New York, Beijing and as far south as New Zealand.

It has been reported that this isn’t the first time that China has let its “space junk” fall haphazardly back to Earth — including the time it apparently let a rocket booster drop onto one of its own villages, spewing toxic fuel and destroying at least one building. During the initial launch of the Long March 5B, “space trash” from the launch largely burned up in the atmosphere before some of the debris survived long enough to slam into West Africa.

The doomed core passed right over New York City, Ars reported — and if re-entry had been just a few minutes earlier, debris could reportedly have showered the Big Apple.

You can track the core here.

Jonathan McDowell, a spaceflight observer, told the website that since 1990 there have been no instances of any spacecraft over 10 tons that have “been deliberately left in orbit to reenter uncontrolled.”

“It’s potentially not good,” McDowell said. “Last time they launched a Long March 5B rocket they ended up with big long rods of metal flying through the sky and damaging several buildings in the Ivory Coast.”

A Texas Democrat who has never agreed with the Biden administration policies at the border accused the administration of posting misleading photos from a migrant processing facility.

The images released by the Biden administration on Tuesday showed a nearly empty Donna facility, with just a few beds and a few youths – in contrast to March images that showed a large number of migrant youths packed into the same location.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott accused the Department of Homeland Security of trying to mislead the American public that the Donna, Texas, site was actually being processed much faster and emptying out of the migrant youths. But they have just moved the youths to a nearby location.

“All they’re doing is, they’re moving kids from one tent to the other tent and saying, ‘Oh, they’re not in the Border Patrol (custody),’” Cuellar said.

The youths were relocated to nearby tents operated by the Department of Health and Human Services, the congressman told the outlet.

“But they’re right next door,” Cuellar added about the migrants. “They’re just next door in HHS.”

White House press secretary Jen Psaki told reporters that the youths were now spending less time in the processing facilities than they had been earlier in the year.

“The amount of time children spend in CBP (U.S. Customs and Border Protection) custody is down 75 percent, from 131 hours at the end of March to under 30 hours now,” Psaki said.

Just in late April, Cuellar disclosed that the Biden administration had fast-tracked more than 15,300 migrants for release without formal immigration notices in his so-called “catch & release” policy.

A concerned New York City father went viral after pulling his daughter out of the private school Brearley School after seven years shared shocking information about how these “elite schools” have changed their curriculum to match the “woke left-wing culture.”

Andrew Gutmann has made these disturbing statements that have garnered national attention after sending the editor of the New York Times a scathing letter addressed to other Brearley parents stating that “obsession with race must stop” by the $54,000-a-year institution.

“We already do a horrific job in this country teaching history, and now we’re going to make that 10 times worse, we’re going to eradicate that,” Gutmann warns in the new interview.

“Our country doesn’t survive not teaching history and civics, and it sure as hell doesn’t survive teaching our children to hate their country and their history.”

Families were pressured to “advocate for Black Lives Matter” while far Left-wing activism was the standard at the elitist school.

Gutmann said his takeaway from the school’s message was: “We want you, we want your daughter, from kindergarten to 12th grade, we want your family to be an activist.” The pressure that Gutmann experienced to conform as so intense that “if you just stay silent, you’re racist. You have to be an activist for that. If you’re not an activist for an antiracism initiative, for Black Lives Matter, for example, you are racist, you are a bad person, you are an oppressor, you are not doing the right thing.”

The school “made it sound like they’re going to integrate this racial curriculum, this anti-racism curriculum, into everything – every class, into math, into gym, P.E., it was shocking that they were taking that degree of integrating it into everything,” Gutmann said, describing the issue as “pervasive.”

White House press secretary Jen Psaki said in a podcast published that President Joe Biden taking random questions from reporters “is not something we recommend.”

Psaki made the admission while being interviewed by CNN Senior Political Commentator David Axelrod on his podcast “The Axe Files,” and claimed that she, at times, even tells Biden to not take questions from reporters.

The two began discussing the subject when Axelrod asked Psaki about a particular instance when Biden inadvertently ran into CNN reporter Kaitlan Collins at the White House, who proceeded to ask the president if a minimum wage increase to $15 would be included in the coronavirus relief package that was signed into law in March.

Axelrod stated that Biden gave the honest answer that he didn’t think the increase would be included in the bill, but him telling that to the reporter must have given Psaki a lot of heartburn and made her ask herself why Biden would be allowed to roll around in the hallways doing impromptu interviews. He then asked Psaki how she managed that.

Psaki laughed off the incident and explained that it happened after she had already left work and Biden was heading back to his residence. She then claimed that Biden takes questions “nearly every day that he’s out in front of the press.”

“That is not something we recommend. In fact, a lot of times we say ‘don’t take questions,’” she continued. “But he’s going to do what he wants to do because he’s the president of the United States.”

Psaki then claimed the administration has kept from being distracted by avoiding having Biden do more consistent press conferences in which he would have to answer questions about certain topics. She gave examples of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., impeachment, and Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo. She added that they wanted to focus his time on addressing subjects that they claim the American people care more about, such as the coronavirus pandemic and the economy.

A Louisiana man received a second chance at life after being homeless for over three years thanks to a generous local car dealer and his team.

Alcide Dominique, owner of Dominique Auto Sales, in Opelousas, Louisiana, said it wasn’t unusual to find someone sleeping in his car lot since it was located in an “underprivileged community.”

“Sometimes they’re sleeping in the car, sometimes they’re sleeping in the boats, sometimes they’re sleeping under the awnings,” Dominique said.

Jamie, however, was different, according to Dominique.

“He was very kind. … He was just happy to be with people who were … treating him like a human being,” he said.

Jamie, now 33, found himself on the streets a few years ago after his grandparents, who had been taking care of him, passed away.

He and Sean drove Jamie to get a hot meal, paid for him to stay at a local motel for the night and even picked up some supplies for him at Walmart.

“All we were doing was just being a friend and getting him something to eat and getting him a room,” he said. “That’s all that we were planning on doing.”

Sean had recorded their entire interaction with Jamie and posted it to TikTok. The clip has already amassed over 10 million views.

The incredible effort by countless strangers has been inspirational to say the least.

All of a sudden droves of people from all walks of life started to reach out and ask how they could help. Many offered to pay for him to stay another night at the motel.

“It’s my buddy Sean. It’s my sales manager Alex. It’s our salesman Walter. It’s America. It’s the world,” he said.

The incredible effort by countless strangers has been inspirational. he said.

“You have to ask yourself what’s important in life. [Is it] getting off work at five o’clock and going home to watch TV, or is it me getting off work at five o’clock to go check on somebody and see if they’re OK?”

Caitlyn Jenner, who recently announced that they are running for governor, made a huge statement after promising Californians to veto any tax increases in the state if elected if Gov. Gavin Newsom gets recalled.

It seems that Jenner is just trying to “save California” after announcing some of their plans on Twitter. She wrote that this is only “just one of my solutions to save California” after quoting her plan.

“When I’m Governor, I’ll veto any tax increase. Period,” the former Olympian wrote under the “Solutions” tab of her campaign website.

The famed member of the Kardashian dynasty has always identified themself as an “#lgbt fiscal conservative and socially liberal candidate.”

“California has the highest personal income tax and highest state sales tax in the country. Add in property tax, federal tax, local tax, gas tax, excise taxes, and some kind of government fee on nearly everything we do,” Jenner added.

“Newsom’s Administration is built upon a flawed viewpoint that we provide an endless stream of funding for a government that rarely cuts back, almost never assesses progress, and outright rejects accountability,” Jenner wrote in a jab at her incumbent opponent.

The Republican gubernatorial candidate also promised to “cut duplicate programs,” “streamline spending” and “hold the legislature accountable” if elected.

A number of eager GOP candidates sprung into action after it was announced that Newsom is facing an upcoming special election. Recall organizers were able to clear the bar by receiving over 1.5 million signatures for their petition. A governor has not been successfully recalled since 2003.

After massive backlash online and on local levels, Cornell University rock-climbing course has now been opened to all students of every race after complaints of modern-day racial segregation were reported.

The “BIPOC” course at the Ivy League university in New York was initially only available and tailored to students who were “Black, Indigenous, or represented other people of color groups.”

It was only after the university experienced backlash after only banning White students from the course forcing the university to lift enrollment restrictions.

The rock-climbing course has been described “to be designed to enable Black, Indigenous, Latinx, Asian or other people of color underrepresented in the sport of rock-climbing to learn the sport and to feel included and supported,” a course description reads. “The class is open to all Cornell students interested in rock climbing with this special focus.”

John Carberry, a university spokesman, said the class remains tailored for underrepresented groups.

“We encourage any student who is interested to take advantage of the unique opportunities across campus to learn from and with the many diverse perspectives and voices across campus,” Carberry said in a statement to the Daily Sun.

“Woke” Students interviewed by the paper seemed strangely supportive of the class, believing that the act of segregation is actually not racist at all, and it is what White people “deserve.” Some said that anyone complaining about the class taking away from “White peers” is “laughable and frustrating.”

“Hearing people complain about this class, saying it’s taking away from our White peers, is laughable and frustrating,” student Thomas Gambra told the paper.

Meanwhile, course instructors have received guidance on how to discuss with students the criticism the initial course offering received.

Former President Donald Trump has been banned from Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube over the last year which resulted in him losing his connection to many Americans. Trump launched his own communications platform on Tuesday.

“The platform, ‘From the Desk of Donald J. Trump’ appears on www.DonaldJTrump.com/desk,” wrote Fox News. The platform that will allow him to exclusively share messages with his millions of followers.

Visitors to “From the Desk of Donald J. Trump” will be able to share Trump’s posts on all various social platforms. A video introduction has been posted on the site to show that this will be a “place to speak freely and safely” while pledging to “Save America.”

“The space allows Trump to post, and allows followers to share the former president’s posts to Twitter and Facebook, however, the new platform does not have a feature to allow users to ‘reply’ or engage with Trump’s posts,” added Fox News.

Trump’s decision to keep the platform a one-way system of communication ultimately frees him and his staff the burden of regulating comments. User-generated comments that violate the rules of other, third-party platforms could enable those platforms to block his posts.

Trump strongly hinted he would run in 2024 during an interview with Candace Owens.

“The answer is I’m absolutely enthused. I look forward to doing an announcement at the right time,” Trump said. “As you know, it’s very early, but I think people are going to be very, very happy … when I make a certain announcement.”

“For campaign finance reasons, you really can’t do it too early because it becomes a whole different thing,” he clarified. “Otherwise I’d give you an answer that I think you’d be very happy with,” he added.

“So we are looking at that very, very seriously. And uh, all I’ll say is stay tuned!” he concluded.

The president’s new communication platform comes as Facebook’s “Oversight Board” considers whether or not his ban on the platform will be permanent.

“The Board will announce its decision on the case concerning former US President Trump’s indefinite suspension from Facebook and Instagram in the coming weeks. We extended the public comments deadline for this case, receiving 9,000+ responses,” the board announced on Twitter. “The Board’s commitment to carefully reviewing all comments has extended the case timeline, in line with the Board’s bylaws. We will share more information soon.”