A woman who reportedly began a monthlong stint as a substitute teacher at Beverly Hills High School on Nov. 4 — the day before the presidential election — said Wednesday she was fired for her "private FB posts criticizing [Make America Great Again] & the behavior of students at their MAGA rally on campus." “I was shocked; I thought I’d get a warning,” Joanie Garratt told the Los Angeles Times. “I didn’t say anything [about Trump] in class. I know not to say anything in class. But I am disgusted with MAGA, and Beverly Hills High School has become MAGA.” 'They have no idea what they have unleashed. SCOTUS gave him free rein, Congress kisses his ass so there are no checks & balances. I have zero respect for America. I’m ashamed to be American.' Garratt retired last year after teaching at the Beverly Hills Unified School District for almost 30 years, the Times said, adding that she was outraged by the Wednesday call from an assistant superintendent firing her. Garratt told the Times her online political posts were cited as the reason for her dismissal.“I WEAR THIS AS BADGE OF HONOR and stand with all the teachers, past & present, who will be persecuted for expressing their views in public forum," she wrote Wednesday on Facebook. "SHAME ON BHUSD.” The Times said a district spokesperson didn't immediately respond to the paper's request for comment regarding Garratt’s firing. During her stint as a substitute teacher — just over a week — Garratt made numerous statements in posts and in comments on her Facebook page. On Sunday, for example, she posted that "sixty-six percent of Jews voted for [Kamala] Harris. Thank goodness my own people did not abandon our liberal democratic tradition." In a comment under the same post, Garratt wrote that "it bothers me that some of my tribe aligned with the devil." In comments under her Saturday post highlighting a message from the high school's student newspaper against pro-MAGA activity on campus, Garratt wrote the following: "They have no idea what they have unleashed. SCOTUS gave him free rein, Congress kisses his ass so there are no checks & balances. I have zero respect for America. I’m ashamed to be American." "Don’t want to see that ugly rapist, criminal, traitor gloat." "They worship a fascist.""I wouldn’t send my kids there today. Oh how [Beverly Hills Unified School District] has fallen from what it was… morally & academically.""I would advise private school now. ... It’s not the stellar district that hired me in 1993. I was so proud to be a teacher here in this District. Now we’re a MAGA satellite."The paper added that Garratt had a history of anti-Trump posts on Facebook prior to the district asking her to take the substitute teaching gig.The Times said Garratt on Nov. 7 wrote on Facebook that pro-Trump students “harassed & intimidated many other non-MAGA students and specifically targeted the class where the Black Student Union was meeting, yelling all kinds of racial slurs.”Elsewhere on Southern California high school campuses in the wake of Trump winning back the White House with 312 electoral votes last week:A teacher allegedly departed from class at Cerritos High School last week because a student was wearing "Make America Great Again" attire.An English teacher from Chino High School was placed on administrative leave after freaking out in class over a student wearing a Trump hat.An Advanced Placement world history teacher from Valley View High School was placed on administrative leave after going on a profane rant in class against Trump.Outside the Golden State, a Connecticut special-ed teacher threatened Trump voters in a viral video and then tried to explain herself in a tearful on-camera interview after resigning from her position. Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

There is a pattern developing with regard to President-elect Donald Trump's recent nominations: He announces someone apparently well suited to executing the agenda he successfully campaigned on; those with vested interests in the status quo panic; and establishmentarians viciously attack the nominees, pleading with nominal Republicans in the U.S. Senate to prevent their confirmation. This pattern has been repeated for multiple picks, including former Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz, Pete Hegseth, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Although virtually all of Trump's nominations have ruffled feathers, his choice of Lt. Col. Tulsi Gabbard to serve as the director of national intelligence appears to have inspired a special kind of unease among Democratic lawmakers, the liberal media, and elements of the intelligence community. The media The Atlantic's Tom Nichols rushed to characterize Gabbard's nomination as a "national security risk," complaining that she previously suggested NATO might have had something to do with Russia's invasion of Ukraine and that Syria did not pose a direct threat to the United States. "Gabbard is a classic case of 'horseshoe' politics," Nichols warned. "Her views can seem both extremely left and extremely right, which is probably why people such as Tucker Carlson — a conservative who has turned into … whatever pro-Russia right-wingers are called now — have taken a liking to the former Democrat (who was previously a Republican and is now again a member of the GOP)." The Washington Examiner's Tom Rogan suggested that by nominating Gabbard, Trump — who was kneecapped in his first term by a malignant counterintelligence investigation and whose 2020 political adversary was given narrative cover prior to the election by CIA contractors and intelligence community alumni — "is putting his distrust of the intelligence community before the critical interests of national security." After trotting out the Syria and Russia-themed attacks against Gabbard, then insinuating that she is a sympathizer with the communist Chinese regime, Rogan warned that if confirmed, she would supervise "all U.S. intelligence agencies' collection, analysis, and mission efforts and the production and dissemination of the U.S. government's most sensitive intelligence reporting and analysis. This includes knowledge of spies buried deep inside foreign governments and terrorist organizations." 'This appointment is sending shock waves here in the United States.' Bill Kristol quoted Jonathan Last, editor of the neocon blog the Bulwark, as writing, "Making Gabbard DNI simply makes no sense. ... Or rather, it makes no sense for America. For Russia, DNI Gabbard makes all the sense in the world." Last appeared particularly upset over Gabbard's opposition to fruitless foreign entanglements and ineffectual U.S. sanctions. Dems and spooks spooked "This appointment is sending shock waves here in the United States but also around the globe," John Brennan, former director of the CIA and chief counterterrorism adviser to former President Barack Obama, said in conversation with MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace. Brennan, one of the signatories of the infamous Hunter Biden "intel" letter, likened the 18 intelligence agencies that Gabbard would oversee to an orchestra, suggesting that she likely doesn't even know what instruments are being played. Former Bush adviser John Bolton, a key proponent of America's disastrous 2003 invasion of Iraq, suggested to NewsNation's "The Hill" that with Trump's "announcement of Tulsi Gabbard to be the director of national intelligence, he's sending a signal that we have lost our mind when it comes to collecting intelligence." One former senior intelligence official who spoke under the condition of anonymity told Politico that the choice was a "left turn and off the bridge." Another intelligence official warned that America's allies, including Israel, might withhold information from Washington if Gabbard were the DNI, adding, "What some allies share may now be shaped by political goals rather than professional intelligence sharing." An unnamed "Western security source" similarly suggested to Reuters that Britain, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand may be less forthcoming about the intelligence they collect, stressing that foreign nations believe Trump's appointments all lean in the "wrong direction." Democratic Rep. Abigail Spanberger (Va.), a former CIA officer who now warms a chair on the House Intelligence Committee, suggested on X that Gabbard, who served in Iraq and Kuwait, would be an oath-breaker. "The men and women of the U.S. Intelligence community honor their oaths by collecting the vital intelligence that keeps our fellow Americans safe. The global threats we face require a Director of National Intelligence who would do the same. Tulsi Gabbard is not that person," wrote Spanberger. The former spook, echoing Nichols, appears to have unwittingly highlighted what has the establishment panicking, telling The Hill, "The DNI has access to every single secret that the United States has, every single bit of information that we know. … It's the keys to the intelligence community kingdom." Larry Pfeiffer, former chief of staff at the CIA under the Bush administration, told The Hill, "Some of the statements she has made through the years that sound like they came right out of the Kremlin's talking points paper are a little bit alarming. Her cozying up to Bashar al-Assad and being an apologist for him as well just raise questions in my mind. Is that really the best person to put in charge of this very complicated, very sensitive operation that is the U.S. intel community?" Jamil Jaffer, a former House Intelligence Committee staffer and national security prosecutor, told The Hill, "What is unusual here is you've got somebody who's had such a long and vociferous track record of saying things that are factually incorrect, that seem to give aid and comfort to U.S. adversaries and that undermine the very people they should be representing at the principals committee." As with Hegseth and Gaetz's critics, those denouncing Gabbard appear to be exponents of the very worldview and policy conventions that Trump was effectively elected to obliterate. Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

Sydney Sweeney has one word for the notion that women are any less vicious than men when it comes to rising to the top of Hollywood's eat-or-be-eaten food chain. Fake!The "Anyone But You" actress recently called BS on the industry's cloying "women empowering other women" narrative. Sweeney should know. Back in April, veteran producer Carol Baum launched an out-of-nowhere attack on the up-and-comer. 'All of it is fake and a front for all the other s**t that they say behind everyone’s back.'"There’s an actress who everybody loves now: Sydney Sweeney. I don’t get Sydney Sweeney," Baum griped. "I was watching on the plane Sydney Sweeney’s movie [‘Anyone but You’] because I wanted to watch it. I wanted to know who she is and why everybody’s talking about her. I watched this unwatchable movie — sorry to people who love this ... romantic comedy where they hate each other."Baum threatBaum — whose credits include “Dead Ringers,” “Father of the Bride,” and “Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” and who also works as an adjunct professor at the University of Southern California's School of Cinematic Arts — added, "I said to my class, ‘Explain this girl to me. She’s not pretty, she can’t act. Why is she so hot?’ Nobody had an answer.""How sad that a woman in the position to share her expertise and experience chooses instead to attack another woman," Sweeney's rep responded."If that’s what she’s learned in her decades in the industry and feels is appropriate to teach to her students, that’s shameful. To unjustly disparage a fellow female producer speaks volumes about Ms. Baum’s character."Claws outSweeney opened up about Baum's catty conniption in a recent interview with Vanity Fair: "It’s very disheartening to see women tear other women down, especially when women who are successful in other avenues of their industry see younger talent working really hard — hoping to achieve whatever dreams that they may have — and then trying to bash and discredit any work that they’ve done," the 27-year-old Sweeney responded. "This entire industry, all people say is 'women empowering other women.' None of it’s happening," Sweeney continued. "All of it is fake and a front for all the other s**t that they say behind everyone’s back."High school with moneySweeney is not the only star to feel Tinseltown's mean girl vibes. Anne Hathaway and Jennifer Lawrence have also commented on the tendency for female performers to become a target when they're at their professional peak.Sweeney thinks she knows why. "I’ve read that our entire lives, we were raised — and it’s a generational problem — to believe only one woman can be at the top. There’s one woman who can get the man. There’s one woman who can be, I don’t know, anything.""So then all the others feel like they have to fight each other or take that one woman down instead of being like, Let’s all lift each other up," Sweeney concluded. "I’m still trying to figure it out. I’m just trying my best over here. Why am I getting attacked?"As Blaze News reported in August 2022, liberals attempted to cancel Sweeney because guests at her mother's 60th birthday party were wearing "Make America Great Again" inspired hats and a "blue lives matter" shirt.The celebrity actress brushed off the outrage, "You guys, this is wild. An innocent celebration for my mom's milestone 60th birthday has turned into an absurd political statement, which was not the intention. Please stop making assumptions. Much love to everyone and Happy Birthday Mom!"Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

Every single one of Donald Trump’s Cabinet picks has been followed by immediate wailing and gnashing of teeth on the left, but the award for the most controversial pick goes to Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.), who is nominated to the role of attorney general. Steve Deace, however, is “here for it” — not just for the appointment of Gaetz but for the full panel Trump has chosen to be in his administration and their collective mentality to “[bring] this whole thing down.” “This is Hulk smash,” says Deace in reference to Trump’s appointees. However, “this Cabinet appointment of Gaetz is the biggest middle-finger appointment in the history of the U.S. presidency,” he says. While Steve isn’t sure if Gaetz is “a righteous person,” as “there are serious [sex trafficking] allegations against [him],” he also knows that this DOJ has no qualms about “indicting Republicans or conservatives,” especially the anti-establishment type. If the allegations against Gaetz, who is undeniably a firebrand, are true, why hasn’t he been indicted already? Steve says that there are two possibilities here: One, “this Department of Justice knowingly allowed a creeper to sit in a congressional seat for the last few years.” Or two, “they don’t have the goods, and they’re smearing [Gaetz].” However, Steve says there’s “a way we get clarity.” “Let’s have a confirmation hearing. … Why don’t we just call witnesses, [Gaetz] calls his, people testify, and let’s find out?” he proposes. Some may think that a hearing is impossible now that Gaetz has resigned his congressional seat and Congress no longer has jurisdiction over him, but Steve says the investigators can “still release their report.” “Are you guys just sick of being told stuff but never being shown stuff?” Steve asks in frustration. “I sure as hell am.” To hear more, watch the episode above. Want more from Steve Deace? To enjoy more of Steve's take on national politics, Christian worldview, and principled conservatism with a snarky twist, subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.

Whoopi Goldberg said on "The View" earlier this week during a discussion about the economy in relation to the presidential election that "I appreciate that people are having a hard time. Me too. I work for a living."Uh-oh. But she wasn't done. The outspoken co-host of the far-left talk show added stridently that "if I had all the money in the world, I would not be here, OK? So I'm a working person, you know? ... I know it's hard out there."'She made it seem like she's struggling and that she has no choice but to ... really pick herself up every day and just head over to work a lot of manual labor.'In regard to Goldberg's 2016 contract extension with "The View," Variety reported that "she will continue to earn her current annual salary, which is in the $5 to $6 million range."Not incidentally, when her heavy-duty Manhattan shift is over, Goldberg reportedly retreats across the bridge to a tony Northern New Jersey community, where her nearly 10,000-square-foot "Georgian Colonial-style residence" with eight bedrooms awaits her. Goldberg reportedly bought the place in 2009 for a cool $2.8 million.So as you might expect, head-shaking outrage erupted once everyday people picked up on Goldberg's pronouncement about her "working person" plight.But perhaps the most eye-opening responses came from Ana Kasparian and Cenk Uygur, hosts of the far-left show "The Young Turks." Neither of them were pleased with Goldberg's words, either."Whoopi, you can't say ... you work for a living and then 'I know your pain' et cetera as if you're a person who isn't spectacularly wealthy," Uygur reacted. "You have to at least acknowledge, 'Look, guys, I get it. I'm wealthy, and I used to be poor, but I haven't been poor in a long, long time. But, you know, here's the ways that I can relate.' Just be honest about it, no problem, right? But when you make it seem like you're barely getting by and you're worried about your grandkids ..."Kasparian added, "She made it seem like she's struggling and that she has no choice but to ... really pick herself up every day and just head over to work a lot of manual labor. ... The way she carried herself in that segment was ridiculous. ... She's not a working-class American."You can watch the Young Turks' reaction to Goldberg's "I work for a living" commentary here.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

New York City Mayor Eric Adams slammed his fellow Democrats for focusing too much of their campaign messaging on fascism fears rather than speaking to "working-class people issues."In a Friday appearance on ABC News' "The View," Adams told the left-leaning panel that the Democratic Party lost the election because it failed to prioritize addressing issues that impact everyday Americans.'What are we doing for everyday people in the country?'"What you saw in this city and this election, when you saw a shift in the city and the state becoming redder, is because we stopped talking about working-class people issues," Adams stated. "What moms and pops are afraid, 'I can't pay my college tuition. The rent is too damn high. Health care is too expensive.' We stopped talking to everyday New Yorkers and Americans."Adams explained that working-class Americans are far more concerned about affordability than fascism. He seemed to criticize Democrats for campaigning on comparing President-elect Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler."When I'm in the street talking to them, they're not asking me, 'Tell me about fascism,'" Adams claimed. "They're talking about finance. They're not talking about Hitler; they're talking about housing. We need to talk to everyday, working-class people, and we stopped doing that."Co-host Joy Behar pushed back on Adams' comments, arguing that Democrats did address those issues."Part of the business of campaigning is getting your message out and being clear with your message," Adams replied. "Even the experts in their party were saying, 'Get back to the message.' What are we doing for everyday people in the country? And this same thing happened in 2022. When I got elected in 2022, I stated that, 'Listen, we need to be talking about crime in this country.' They ignored it. We lost the election. During 2023, I said we had to deal with this migrant-asylum issue. It was on the top one or two issues in the country. We ignored it. We have to go back and talk to those issues that people are worried about."Since April 2022, more than 210,000 foreign nationals have arrived in New York City. The city's taxpayers have spent over $2.3 billion to provide accommodations for the migrants.Adams announced last week that the city will stop supplying migrant arrivals with prepaid debit cards at the end of the year, Blaze News previously reported.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

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