SCHOOLBOARD MEMBER ADMITS TO LYING ABOUT FOOTBALL COACH CALLING HER SON A NIGGER AFTER IT EMERGED HE DIDN'T EVEN ATTEND COACH'S SCHOOL

Daily Mail

 

School board member admits to lying about football coach calling her son the N-word after it emerged he didn't even attend his school

By EMMA RICHTER, US SENIOR NEWS REPORTER

Published: 17:18 EDT, 18 August 2026 | Updated: 17:22 EDT, 18 August 2026

 

A California school board member has admitted to lying about her son's football coach calling him a racial slur.

 

Fresno Unified Board Trustee Keshia Thomas withdrew her allegation against former Bullard High School Football Coach Don Arax in court last week.

 

She previously claimed that Arax, who is white, called her son the N-word in 2013 during a May 2022 podcast episode for GV Wire, Action News reported.

 

Arax filed a defamation lawsuit against her that same year, and she and her son have since admitted to lying. It has also emerged that the child did not even attend Arax's school.

 

She told Action News: 'As a mother, when my child told me something had occurred involving race, I took him seriously.

 

'As a school board member, I also believed I had a responsibility to take seriously anything that could affect whether students felt safe, respected and comfortable in their school environment.

 

'My concern was not only for my son, but for every child entrusted to our schools.'

 

She went on to speak directly to Arax, stating: 'Mr. Arax, I sincerely apologize to you and your family. I believed the information I had at the time, but I have since learned that the information I relied upon was not accurate.

 

'Had I known then what I know today, I would not have made those statements. I cannot undo what I said, but I can acknowledge what I know today, take responsibility for the words I spoke and offer you the apology you deserve.'

 

Thomas is now being urged by the Fresno Teachers Association (FTA) to stand down from the school board and drop out of the upcoming Fresno City Council race.

 

'How can we as a community trust that what she says is accurate, it's true?' FTA President Manuel Bonilla said.

 

After issuing her lengthy statement, Thomas made it clear that she would not be stepping down.

 

'I am not resigning,' she told Action News before slamming the FTA.

 

She added: 'FTA's attempt to turn an act of accountability into a political demand for my resignation is irresponsible and distracting.

 

'It is also troubling coming from a labor organization whose movement is built on due process, fair representation and the right to be heard. Those principles should not disappear when politically inconvenient.'

 

Thomas's U-turn comes after she previously tried to walk back her allegations.

 

In a deposition video filmed in April 2025 and referenced in court last week, the mother denied ever making the claims.

 

When asked by Arax's attorney if she called the coach a 'racist,' she replied: 'I have never referred to him as a racist to anyone,' footage obtained by the outlet revealed.

 

The lawyer then asked her: 'Do you understand that if you tell people that Mr. Arax refers to your son as the N-word, that they would understand that Mr. Arax is racist?'

 

Thomas's lawyer then objected, but she replied: 'Thank you. And I never said he called my son the N-word.'

 

Her son, who has not been named, also 'made a similar acknowledgment in his own declaration,' Fresno City Council's District 3, where Thomas has a seat, said.

 

Bonilla has now questioned Fresno Unified School District's (FUSD) handling of the case, and how much it cost taxpayers.

 

When approached for comment by Action News, a spokesperson for FUSD said they 'agreed to help cover trustee Thomas' legal fees at a time when we had no reason to question her account.'

 

'Since then, new information has come to light. In her deposition, Thomas acknowledged that some of her earlier statements were not accurate, and her son made a similar acknowledgment in his own declaration,' a statement read.

 

'In light of this, the FUSD Board will reconsider whether it will continue supporting Thomas' attorneys' fees.

 

'We also want to be clear about the scope of our support: FUSD has not agreed to indemnify Thomas should she be found liable for defamation.

 

'We're hopeful that mediation on August 31, will help the parties find common ground on the remaining questions of damages and liability,' the statement concluded.

 

The case could be settled during mediation, but if it's not, it will go to trial in December.

 

Arax claimed over $10,000 in damages when he originally filed his suit against Thomas. 

 

The Daily Mail contacted Thomas, Bonilla, Araz, and the Fresno Unified School District for comment.

SECOND THOUGHTS FROM AN EX-FEMINIST

Second Thoughts from an Ex-Feminist F. ROGER DEVLIN • AUGUST 17, 2026 The Occidental Observer The Goddess that Failed: Feminism’s Unending War Against Men, Families, and Civilization Itself Janice Fiamengo New English Review Press, 2026 Janice Fiamengo, born 1964, is a retired professor of English at the University of Ottawa. Entering the academy as an impressionable young woman in the 1980s, her initial acceptance of feminism must have been almost a foregone conclusion: “I have felt its euphoric exultation and its self-flattering conviction of moral purity,” she admits. She studied all the standard feminist texts and for many years took the validity of their analysis for granted. But The Goddess that Failed is not her personal story. However her disillusionment came about, she began speaking out against the movement in 2012. Her work can be followed online at The Fiamengo File. The author does not blunt her message with any assumption that there must originally have been a good, moderate, or reasonable feminism that was later hijacked, betrayed, or taken to excess by wayward followers. She reminds us, for example, that the campaign for women’s suffrage in the United Kingdom over a century ago escalated from heckling politicians and smashing shop windows to arson attacks on homes and churches. Some suffragettes concocted letter bombs out of phosphorous and sulfuric acid. One threw a hatchet at Prime Minister Asquith: Through all the destruction of property, threat to livelihoods, and physical harm to innocent bystanders, the suffragettes saw themselves as sacrificial heroines. Like many terrorists, they envisioned their cause as pure enough to justify nearly any level of violence…. They were successful in their campaign at least in part because the men they castigated as villains couldn’t bear to deal firmly with their maudlin claims and dangerous acts. Fiamengo knows that a crucial element in feminism’s success has been the strong natural bias in favor of women that characterizes both sexes: a synergy between female in-group preference and the male protective instinct. There has been some objective research on this timeless phenomenon. In 1994, for example, psychologists Alice Eagly and Antonio Mladinic reported that both male and female research subjects were more likely to ascribe positive traits to women than to men, with the bias measurably stronger in women; they christened this the “women-are-wonderful” effect. Later studies found women’s in-group bias four and a half times stronger than men’s. In 2019 British psychologists Martin Seager and John Barry developed the concept of “Gamma bias” to describe “unconscious prejudice against men and boys,” as observed in the tendency of both men and women to sympathize more with women than men. Such studies are valuable, but as with much of social psychology, they merely confirm something that has always been widely known: men are expected to put the needs of women and children first. As Fiamengo points out, feminists could never have achieved the success they have if men were remotely similar to the selfish brutes they depict. Even half a century of feminist fury has been unable to do away with men’s natural bias in women’s favor. The other side of male bias in women’s favor is what the author calls “the empathy gap”—the often-shocking inability or unwillingness of many women to empathize with male suffering. She recounts that after the sinking of the Titanic, a group of women survivors organized to build a memorial to the men who had sacrificed themselves in the women’s favor: Some feminists refused gratitude, noting that men had built the ship and therefore could be expected to take their lumps when it proved faulty. Some proclaimed with fury that women suffered daily under men’s cruelty; a single day of suffering and death paled by comparison. During the First World War, thousands of British women participated in a mass-shaming ritual of their menfolk, accosting any man they found in civilian clothing to present him with a white feather as a symbol of his cowardice. They accompanied the gesture with rehearsed speeches making clear their furious contempt: “Why don’t you fellows enlist? Your King and Country want you. We don’t.” This went on for the entire duration of the war, and feathers were even given to wounded men on leave or underage boys. One sixteen-year-old was so mortified by the bullying that he lied about his age in order to enlist and was promptly killed. Fiamengo also mentions an officer awarded the Victoria Cross for bravery; that same day he changed into civilian clothes only to be given a white feather by some female passers-by: “He accepted without a word and, as a curiosity, put it with his V.C. He remarked to a friend that he was probably the only man who ever received on the same day emblems of bravery and cowardice.” The man later died at the front. Such attitudes continue to this day, as feminists brag online about “bathing in male tears” and exult over various instances of male suffering. The similarities between feminism and Marxism have long been noted: indeed, as far back as 1884, Friedrich Engels explicitly drew a parallel between wives and the oppressed proletariat. Most importantly, feminism shares the Marxist mental gestalt whereby society is envisaged in terms of conflicting innocent and guilty groups. As Fiamengo observes, this leaves feminism unable to affirm any universal principles of justice: “it is incapable of extending empathy to whose it has been taught to see as oppressors” or “of demanding accountability from those it has been taught to see as victims.” Because of this inability, “one of feminism’s biggest lies has been its declared aim to overthrow traditional Western gender arrangements in order to liberate men as well as women into an equal partnership.” This last remark is a useful reminder: in the more optimistic days of early “second wave” feminism, back in the 1970s, the movement did indeed claim to seek the liberation of men as well as women from traditional arrangements. Female careerism, e.g., would supposedly ease the burden upon husbands to be sole providers for their families. Such talk has now largely disappeared. The parallel with Marxism is instructive here as well. Officially, socialist revolution was supposed to liberate the bourgeoisie as well as the working class from the “alienation” that characterizes capitalism. The sons of capitalists would one day join hands with the sons of the proletariat in order to build the classless society of the future, and the unfortunate but necessary stage of “merciless class struggle” would barely survive as a memory. But Marxist practitioners such as Lenin quickly became too preoccupied with killing the class enemy to worry much about healing him of his capitalist alienation. A similar development can be observed in feminism as well: an involuntarily divorced husband would not make much headway in family court by appealing to the supposed feminist goal of reducing his burdens as a provider. “The last thing aimed at by feminism,” Fiamengo notes, “is the liberation of men from their traditional roles and obligations.” Feminists alternate opportunistically between their explicit egalitarian ideology and appeals to traditional notions of male duty; logical consistency is not important to them. For this reason, close analysis of feminist doctrine is perhaps of less use in making sense of the movement than a look at the psychological rewards it provides to adherents. A relevant 2020 study involving researchers from America and—perhaps not accidentally—Israel identifies what it calls “TIV,” the Tendency for Interpersonal Victimhood, as a stable personality trait involving a chronic, deep-seated feeling of being a victim across many different relationships and situations. Fiamengo summarizes: Passionate belief in one’s victimhood creates an identifiable personality type, one that ruminates on grievance and interprets all experiences through the victimhood lens. Belief in victimhood need have no correlation with actual experience of victimization. The victim personality is characterized above all by a strong need to have one’s suffering recognized. With this need comes a conviction of immaculate morality, a resulting inability to accept criticism or disagreement, and a profound lack of empathy for those perceived as enemies. The researchers also found that people with a victim personality believe themselves justified in taking revenge on those who appear to oppress them. Even when presented with facts and evidence to rebut their beliefs, they are unwilling to relinquish their worldview, which becomes intimately associated with their sense of self. Anger at others and the belief in innocent victimhood create a toxic stew of self-righteousness and moral blindness. Fiamengo notes that many young women experience something like a religious conversion upon “finding” feminism: “adherents feel washed clean, reborn, filled with purpose and zeal…. All of life’s dissatisfactions make sense and can be blamed on the oppressive system. Nothing is one’s own fault.” Obviously, not all women are feminists. American conservatives have long taken comfort from the well-attested finding that a majority of women express reservations about the label. But all radical movements involve a small, hard core and a far larger and fuzzier periphery, and feminism’s periphery now extends deeply into Western society. Fiamengo writes that, while she tries to maintain the distinction between women and feminists, this can sometimes be difficult. A 2020 Pew poll found that only 19% of American women say the term feminist describes them “very well,” but another 42% say it describes them “somewhat well.” So that makes 61% unwilling to distance themselves from feminism unambiguously. A closer examination of the other 39% would probably reveal plenty of feminist influence as well. As the author notes, most women now take for granted that they belong to a “historically oppressed group,” and accept as a matter of course that special legal protections and government programs should promote their advancement and well-being. People cannot be marinated in an ideology their entire lives without coming to believe that at least some of its claims must be true. Fiamengo also mentions the phenomenon of “confirmation bias:” applying a feminist lens when viewing the world helps one see evidence supporting it while screening out contradictory information. The author is under no illusions that feminism can be reformed: Even today, half a century after the implementation of equity hiring programs as well as ceaseless female empowerment campaigns in schools and universities, many women are still angry and many men still trying to make amends. It must be stopped. We will never reach a point where feminists decide to call off the gender war, accepting that men have done enough for them. There will never come a point where the suffering of boys and men matters more to feminists than their own power. 

Women can destroy any society to which they belong simply by refusing to be wives and mothers. Feminism brings such a refusal about by directly undermining women’s ability to love. No less than other hostile forces discussed on this website, it is a deadly threat to European Civilization. 

DALLAS-FORT WORTH AIRPORT TO INSTALL ISLAMIC FOOTWASHING STATIONS IN BATHROOMS

New York Post

 

Dallas-Fort Worth airport to install Islamic foot wash stations inside bathrooms

By Landon Mion, Fox News

Published Aug. 13, 2026, 12:08 p.m. ET

Originally Published by: Fox News

 

Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport will install Islamic foot wash stations inside bathrooms at the facility, according to the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation.

 

The project was officially registered with Texas regulators on July 31, according to documents detailing the project.

 

The installation of the Wudu ablution stations is expected to be complete by the end of the year.

 

“Project consists of adding Ablution stations to existing concourse-level restrooms in Terminal D, one Men’s ablution station in existing men’s restroom and one Women’s ablution station in the existing women’s restroom,” the project details read.

 

It is privately funded and expected to cost around $300,000, the documents state.

 

The updates aim to prevent water on standard restroom floors and protect sink counters.

 

Similar low-level basins and interfaith spaces already exist at other major international airport hubs across the U.S., including Chicago O’Hare.

 

A person washing their foot with running water from a faucet in a room with white tiled walls.

 

Some conservatives were outraged online over the project plan, while others urged people to take a more measured approach, noting that the new stations are not about pushing any ideology.

 

“People are freaking out over foot-washing stations at DFW, but let’s look at the actual facts before jumping to conclusions. This isn’t about pushing an ideology — it’s basic airport management,” conservative activist Ryan Fournier wrote on social media.

 

“Safety & Plumbing: People washing their feet in standard bathroom sinks creates soaked, slippery floors and breaks the counters. Low-level wudu basins keep the restrooms dry and safe for everyone,” he continued.

 

“Standard Infrastructure: DFW is one of the busiest travel hubs on the planet. Major U.S. airports like Chicago O’Hare and Indianapolis have had these and interfaith rooms for years to handle international traffic cleanly,” Fournier added.

 

Fournier said the addition is “just about keeping the bathrooms clean and preventing people from slipping on wet tiles. Plain and simple.”

 

Fox News Digital reached out to the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation, Gov. Greg Abbott’s office and Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport for comment.

KANSAS DEMOCRATIC GOVERNOR NOMINEE SUGGEST JESUS COULD HAVE BEEN TRANSGENDER

Washington Examiner

 

Kansas Democratic governor nominee suggested Jesus could have been transgender

By Samantha-Jo Roth

Published August 12, 2026 5:00am ET | Updated August 12, 2026 8:14am ET

 

Kansas Democratic gubernatorial nominee Cindy Holscher is facing Republican attacks over resurfaced social media posts in which she entertained the possibility that Jesus Christ could have been transgender, injecting a culture war issue into one of the country’s most competitive gubernatorial races.

 

Holscher, a state senator who won the Democratic nomination last week, made the comments on social media in 2023 during a debate over proposed Kansas legislation targeting drag performances in front of children. At least one of the posts remained online as of this week, while another appears to have been deleted.

 

In a March 7, 2023, post, Holscher responded to another user by writing, “I have no idea if Jesus was trans, gay, straight, etc.”

 

“But you seem to imply that a sacred figure is ‘less than’ if they aren’t straight. That’s too bad,” Holscher continued, before asking the user for “proof that schools are grooming children.”

 

The exchange came after Holscher criticized Senate Bill 149, legislation introduced that year that sought to restrict drag performances accessible to minors.

 

In an earlier post included in the exchange, Holscher noted that the proposal would make certain drag performances with children in attendance a crime and shared an illustration depicting Jesus sitting with a group of children, writing, “So, what about this???”

 

A user responded by asking whether Holscher was “suggesting that Jesus was a transgender?” Holscher subsequently posted her response, saying she did not know whether Jesus was “trans, gay, straight, etc.”

 

The legislation at the center of the dispute would have classified certain drag performances as an “obscenity to minors.” Under the proposal, a first offense would have been a Class A misdemeanor, and a second offense would have been a felony. The bill, introduced by Republican state Sen. Mike Thompson, was referred to the Senate Judiciary Committee but never advanced and ultimately died in committee in 2024.

 

The posts are resurfacing as Holscher moves from a Democratic primary into a difficult general election contest against Republican Ty Masterson, giving the GOP nominee a new line of attack as Republicans seek to retake the governor’s mansion.

 

“If anyone needs proof that Cindy Holscher is a radical, here it is,” Masterson said in a statement to the Washington Examiner. “She mocked Jesus Christ to defend drag shows for kids, and she’s never apologized.”

 

“That’s not your parents’ Democrat, that’s the most radical liberal nominee in Kansas history,” he said. “This November the choice could not be clearer.”

 

Holscher’s campaign pushed back on Masterson’s criticism, accusing the Republican nominee of focusing on years-old social media posts to divert attention from economic issues.

 

“Ty Masterson is focused on old tweets while Kansans’ bills are skyrocketing,” Holscher spokesman TJ Helmstetter said in a statement to the Washington Examiner. “He’s trying to distract voters from his failure to lower property taxes and his extreme agenda, but they’ll see right through it.”

 

The controversy comes at the outset of a general election that will determine whether Democrats can extend their eight-year hold on the Kansas governor’s mansion after Gov. Laura Kelly (D-KS) leaves office.

 

Holscher defeated fellow state lawmaker Ethan Corson for the Democratic nomination last week despite Kelly endorsing Corson, handing the outgoing governor and the Democratic establishment a defeat in the primary. She will now face Masterson in November.

 

The general election presents a challenging political environment for Democrats. Republicans have a sizable voter-registration advantage in Kansas, with GOP voters registered at nearly twice the rate of Democrats, and the Cook Political Report rates the contest “Lean Republican.”

 

The resurfaced Holscher posts also come as another Democratic nominee in a marquee 2026 race faces scrutiny over past comments connecting religion and gender. Texas state Rep. James Talarico has found himself in hot water over his 2021 declaration that “God is nonbinary,” a remark Republicans have made a major line of attack in his Senate race against Republican state Attorney General Ken Paxton.

 

Talarico made the comment during a debate in the Texas legislature over legislation requiring K-12 student-athletes to compete on teams corresponding to the sex listed on their original birth certificates.

 

Asked about the remark in an interview with ABC News Live in May, Talarico argued Paxton was resurfacing his old comments to distract voters from controversies surrounding the Republican.

 

“Ken Paxton is clipping my past cringey comments to distract from his career of corruption,” Talarico said, calling it part of a political “playbook” of “distraction and division.”

 

Talarico acknowledged that his original remark was “meant to be deliberately provocative” but defended the underlying argument, saying he believes “you can’t use human categories to define God.”

 

The episodes could offer Republicans another opportunity to use transgender issues against Democratic candidates in competitive races, a strategy the party employed aggressively during the 2024 presidential campaign.

 

President Donald Trump’s campaign repeatedly targeted then-Vice President Kamala Harris over her positions on transgender issues, most prominently through its “Kamala is for they/them” advertising campaign. The Democratic National Committee’s post-election review later identified the attack as one of the most effective of the election cycle.

ULTRA-WOKE WOMAN RUNNING FOR WISCONSIN GOVERNOR CLAIMED SHE ONCE LEFT RESTAURANT BECAUSE THERE WERE TOO MANY OLD WHITE PEOPLE CAUSING HER ANXIETY

Daily Mail

 

Ultra-woke woman running for Wisconsin governor claimed she once left restaurant because there were 'too many old white people' causing her anxiety

By LAUREN ACTON-TAYLOR, US NEWS REPORTER

Published: 16:41 EDT, 3 August 2026 | Updated: 16:47 EDT, 3 August 2026

 

A Wisconsin gubernatorial Democratic candidate revealed she quickly left a Culver's with her son on the verge of an 'anxiety attack' because there were 'too many old white people.'

 

Francesca Hong, 37, posted on X in 2019 that anxiety drove her to leave the fast-food restaurant after 'too many old white people' allegedly thought she and her son didn't speak English.

 

'I ate two bites of my kid's cheeseburger at a Culver's in Black River Falls and told him they ran out of ice cream,' she wrote.

 

'Mostly just wanted to leave because I was on the verge of an anxiety attack... too many old white people who didn't think we spoke English.'

 

The July 2019 post resurfaced as Hong launched her gubernatorial candidacy, championing policies including universal childcare, fully funded public schools,  cheaper healthcare and protecting immigrants against ICE.

 

Hong's post was reshared on X by right-wing political commentator Matt Walsh, who wrote: 'A woman who confessed to having anxiety attacks around white people wants to be governor of Wisconsin, an 85 percent white state.'

 

'If this doesn't immediately destroy her campaign and career then we're doomed as a country,' he added.

 

The comments saw outrage and mockery over Hong's story, as many users slammed the candidate.

 

'How can you be a representative of a constituency you hate and loathe so much you have panic attacks when around them,' one comment asked.

 

'Ohhhh lawd have mercy, that poor delicate flower won't survive the anxiety of the job. Best to put her in a mental health facility,' another user quipped.

 

'If you have an anxiety attack at a burger joint, you have no business running a state,' a third wrote.

 

In response, Hong re-shared a post that saw her commenting on Culver's in 2020, which said: 'They are the perfect road curd. No other fried curd comes close. Only Culvers curds or fresh curds are appropriate for travel. For in person dining Culver's curds are indeed, trash.'

 

Hong's fresh response said: 'I see that folks are digging up old tweets in an attempt to shift the narrative in this race. I stand by this statement, unequivocally. Their fries also leave much to be desired. The Reuben, however, slaps.'

 

She has not yet addressed her comments about 'old white people.' Daily Mail has contacted Hong for a statement. 

 

Alongside her post about anxiety, other people also noted Hong's admission to having a 'mental breakdown' when she was 18 years old in a resurfaced interview.

 

In September 2023, Hong, as the first Asian to win an Assembly Seat in Wisconsin, told Meal Magazine as a chef and owner of her own restaurant, Morris Ramen, that she had a history of poor mental health.

 

'At 18, I had a mental breakdown. I didn't actually walk at my high school graduation because I had been hospitalized for a week at a child-psychiatric hospital. I just felt like nothing had meaning anymore,' she said.

 

'It was a numbness that took over, and a pain that I couldn't describe. I couldn't feel anymore, and that scared the hell out of me. And I found myself self-harming to feel something.'

 

After she was probed by the outlet, Hong revealed she had been diagnosed with bipolar disease, placed on an antidepressant and experienced a lithium overdose.

 

In the same interview, Hong commented on an inflammatory post on X aimed at the Wisconsin Tavern League over Covid-19 policy soon after she was elected.

 

'I know that inflammatory or aggressive language can feel off-putting at first, but I am expressing my right to be emotional, to be personal, to be human,' she told the outlet.

 

'So this is me being a human - angry, frustrated, and scared that there are forces that I don't have control over impacting the people that I care about. Part of it is in redefining who a politician is: somebody with a foul mouth who works in the dish pit on a Saturday night.

 

'There’s a lack of curiosity and creativity in politics. And if I can be someone that can continue to agitate and use activism as a way to push policy from the inside to the outside...'

 

Hong further said she recognizes Twitter's reach as 'an engagement tool.'

 

'A tool for letting people know that I feel pain that you are feeling too. Relational organizing depends on me making connections with people, and it's not always going to come from a place of peaceful discourse. We are past that,' she continued.

 

'I used to have people accuse me of being like Trump, and now two years later, they see what the intention was: to literally dismantle democracy and overturn an election.'

 

Hong, a member of the Democratic Socialists of America and the Assembly's Socialist Caucus, was first elected to the State Assembly in 2020.

 

The Daily Mail reached out to Hong for comment.