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August 15, 2026

Jason Arday Commits Suicide: DEI Kills Fabulist Professor, but Some Blame its Critics

A handwritten “DEI Kills.” sign rises above a crowd gathered for a public demonstration.

By Selwyn Duke

Did diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) kill Jason Arday? Strictly speaking, Arday, 41, the academic who resigned August 5 from Cambridge University over plagiarism charges, died by apparent suicide. He was found deceased Friday at his property in Battersea, south London. But it’s hard escaping the conclusion that had he not been DEI-enabled by Cambridge, he’d be alive today.

I’d reported on Arday twice recently, and I was shocked upon hearing late last night of his passing. Condolences should be extended to his loved ones; his is a sad and tragic story. It’s important, however, to learn the right lessons from it. And as of now, it’s apparent that some would bury the Truth with Arday.
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August 14, 2026

Did Francesca Hong Get (Donald) Trumped by the Dem Establishment?

By Selwyn Duke

Socialist candidate for the Wisconsin governorship, Francesca Hong, was leading by double digits in the run-up to Tuesday’s primary election.

She lost by 0.45 percent.

Oh, and she was defeated by a guy, David Crowley, who’d dropped out of the race during mid July. He said he had no path to the nomination, but re-entered the fray when another establishment candidate herself withdrew.

One more thing: During the vote count, five USB sticks were found — after midnight — to not have any ballot data on them. This was, too, when Crowley had a razor-thin lead and appeared vulnerable, and the data had to be recovered. This was explained as “human error.”

Others call it a ballot dump.
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August 14, 2026

“Fiscal Shackle” Revolution: Argentina’s Milei Aims to KILL the Debt State — for Good

By Selwyn Duke

“Rain will always fall downwards,” the saying goes. “Don’t try to change the impossible.” And government will always run up debt to buy votes and print “counterfeit” currency to cover the deficits.

While this is taken for granted, a revolution led by Argentine president Javier Milei aims to break the cycle. If it succeeds, deficit spending (and currency inflation) may become a thing of the past, too.
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August 11, 2026

What is a Woman? Unprincipled WNBA is Being Pressured to Walk the “Trans” Walk

By Selwyn Duke

“It’s easy being idealistic when you don’t have to live with your ideals,” someone close to me once said. The Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA) is learning this the hard way, too.

That is, the league recently defended the practice of having men who masquerade as female in women’s/girls’ sports. The reaction?

Many observers, including me, suggested that high-level male basketballers should try to make the WNBA practice what it preaches. Then it happened:

Two ex-NBA players, Enes Kanter Freedom and Royce White, declared last Friday for the WNBA draft.

Both “women” (hey, let’s get into the spirit here) are young enough to be assets to the league. Freedom is 34, White 35. Moreover, the former is 6’10” and 250 lbs, and White is 6’8” and 260. So it’s not just that they could routinely out-rebound the competition and easily dunk the ball.

They also could perhaps dunk their average WNBA opponent while she’s holding the ball.

Very impressive ladies they are.
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August 11, 2026

Comical DEI Academic Resigned — But “Diversity” is Still Killing the West

By Selwyn Duke

Jason Arday was fêted and celebrated when he joined Cambridge University’s faculty in 2023. At 37, he was the prestigious institution’s youngest black professor, and no one wanted to look at him critically. The skids were so well greased that Cambridge turned a blind eye even when evidence piled up that Arday was George Santos, Walter Mitty, and Baron Munchausen all wrapped up into one. But then the allegations finally reached critical mass. The professor resigned Wednesday night, and Cambridge’s blind eye turned into a black one. Now the university’s faculty are calling for an “inquiry” into his appointment. But will anything really change without also firing his enablers?

The main problem, after all, isn’t individual corruption. It’s institutional corruption.
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August 10, 2026

Investigation PROVES Illegals Voted in Michigan Election. Should Election be Voided?

By Selwyn Duke

Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed won the Democratic primary for Senate from Michigan last Tuesday.

Or, did he?

That is, legitimately.

The question is apt because a new investigation has proven something striking: Illegal aliens did in fact vote in that race.

Now a question arises:

Was the vote fraud great enough to have changed the result?

El-Sayed “defeated” Representative Haley Stevens (D-Mich.) by a mere one percent (48.5 percent to 47.5 percent). This amounts to approximately 15,000 to 25,000 votes in a state with 10.13 million residents. In other words, critics may say, the victory was “within the margin of vote fraud.”

This raises another question: If fraud was rampant, should the Michigan primary election be thrown out? Judges have done this before, mind you.
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August 9, 2026

Megan Rapinoe Raps Sophie Cunningham: Still Wants Men in Women’s Sports

By Selwyn Duke

The obscure comedy Ladybugs features a businessman-turned-coach who, desperate to help his struggling girls’ soccer team, dresses a talented boy as a female and puts him on the roster. At the film’s release, in 1992, this was considered the stuff of fiction — utterly ridiculous.

Today it’s considered, well, leftist dogma that it should be allowed.

Enter ex-professional soccer player and current devoted leftist Megan Rapinoe. She’s again agitating in favor of men in women’s sports and against common sense, this time targeting Sophie Cunningham. Cunningham is the Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA) player who recently made news by opposing the men-in-women’s-sports (i.e., “trans”) phenomenon.

Now, there’s an irony here. Without sexually segregating sports, Rapinoe wouldn’t have had a career and no one would’ve heard of her. This is not opinion. It isn’t unusual for professional women’s soccer teams to lose to 14-year-old boys. In fact, Rapinoe’s own team, the U.S. National Women’s Team (reigning world champs at the time), lost to the FC Dallas under-15 boys squad 5-2 in 2017. One of Rapinoe’s teammates, Carli Lloyd, made no bones about this, either. “They should beat us,” she said of the lads in 2023. “Bigger, stronger, faster!”
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August 7, 2026

Ex-DSA Member: DSA is Now “Controlled by Communists”

By Selwyn Duke

“It’s not a harmless organization,” an ex-Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) member recently said about the DSA. “These people seem perfectly willing to cohabitate with Maoists, Trotskyists and people who have this thrill to violence that’s profoundly troubling…”

This warning, issued by one Jake Altman, may be a statement of the obvious to many readers. Yet one point will be news. That is, outsiders may consider Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), a DSA member, an organization standard bearer. But you know what she actually is now?

On the outs with DSA purists.

AOC isn’t far left enough for their tastes — and they can’t outright endorse her, we hear.
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August 7, 2026

Francesca Hong: Will a Mentally Unstable Woman Become Wisconsin’s Next Governor?

Image created with Grok AI.

By Selwyn Duke

More than 50 percent of young, liberal, white women have been diagnosed with some form of “mental health” problem. This research-born finding — and the fact that psychological diagnoses are now “in” — may help explain something, too.

That is, one Francesca Hong.

Hong, in case you haven’t heard, is the Democrats’ presumptive nominee for the Wisconsin governorship. And, no, she’s not a white woman, but plenty of young white women are supporting her. (Approximately 70 percent of women 18-29 hail Hong.) However much she reflects them, too, Hong is, well, quite a piece of work.

First, she’s a socialist and quite possibly a closet communist (if there’s a difference), as so many “socialists” are. She has the radical left-wing beliefs to prove it, too. But then there’s also this:
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August 6, 2026

Hilariously Comical DEI Academic Accused of Plagiarism — Joins a Long List of Fakers

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By Selwyn Duke

Many years ago, late economist Walter E. Williams recounted a story about being offered a prestigious Ivy League professorship. A young man at the time, he refused the position. Since he wasn’t qualified on paper, he explained, it would be obvious he was hired simply because of his race. (Williams was black). He did later accept a position at George Mason University — but he issued a warning to the interviewer.

“If I find out you hired me based on affirmative action,” he essentially said, “I will quit on that day.”

Unfortunately, however, since such integrity is rare, America — and the wider West — has diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) hires everywhere. There’s “civil rights” attorney Ben Crump, who somehow passed the bar exam despite reading at an elementary-school level. There’s also black female ex-professor Kerri Greenidge, who just left Tufts University owing to plagiarism accusations and other trespasses.

And now there’s yet another DEI scandal involving plagiarism and more, at Britain’s legendary Cambridge University. This one concerns one Jason Arday, who’s described as a “distinguished and highly respected scholar of race, inequality and education.”
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