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Most of the top films were overlooked in at least one key category, but Ryan Coogler's vampire feature ran the table The post Oscar Voters Make ‘Sinners’ the New Lords of the Academy Awards appeared first on TheWrap.

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"One Battle After Another" came in second with 13, followed by "Frankenstein," "Sentimental Value" and "Marty Supreme" with nine The post ‘Sinners’ Breaks Oscar Record With 16 Nominations (Complete List) appeared first on TheWrap.

No White Men Need Apply Authored by Judge Glock & Christopher F. Rufo via City Journal, On the campaign trail, President Donald Trump promised to end federal spending on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs. Yet the government has continued to award contracts based on race and sex. Despite rampant fraud and multiple court rulings against the practice, the Small Business Administration (SBA) has used “disadvantage” essays from business owners to skirt the rules and continue discriminatory programs that dole out billions in government contracts. For decades, the federal government has awarded certain special contracts exclusively to so-called disadvantaged businesses and women-owned small businesses. Until 2023, SBA presumed that racial minorities were “disadvantaged.” The resulting discrimination was absolute: according to an analysis conducted between 2020 and 2023, these programs made not a single award to white men. Though the second Trump administration has taken steps to limit these contracts, the largest disadvantaged-business initiative—the SBA’s 8(a) program—is thriving. The program “is still one of the most lucrative and sought after” SBA certificates, one contracting lawyer said in November. In fact, fiscal year 2025 saw the largest 8(a) spending on record, totaling $26 billion. President Trump signed an executive order forbidding federal DEI discrimination, and a federal district court struck down the SBA’s presumption that minorities are disadvantaged. How, then, has 8(a) survived? Much as colleges have used personal essays to evade affirmative-action bans, the Small Business Administration has asked companies to submit “social disadvantage narratives” to qualify for the 8(a) program. These allow business owners to establish minority status through descriptions of racial taunts or alleged discrimination. Applicants might not check a racial box, but the implication is clear: no white men need apply. The SBA’s “Guide for Demonstrating Social Disadvantage” reveals how the shell game works. The guide teaches applicants how to play the system, featuring examples of potential “disadvantage.” It gives minorities and women the magic words: “I believe my application [for a bank loan] was denied due to bias toward my race” and “I believe my request [to declare a business major] was denied based on sex bias.” Once the agency approves the application, the contracts can start flowing—no real evidence required. Are these applicants always disadvantaged? No. Consider Earl Stafford Jr., a black contractor who wrote an essay to apply for the 8(a) program. The Washington Business Journal reported on Stafford’s “painstaking” ordeal of writing the essay, in which he described unspecified acts of discrimination that made him think that he did not have “what it took to be in business.” Yet his father, Earl Stafford Sr., founded a successful defense firm and started his own private foundation—hardly the background of a disadvantaged person. As with any racialized initiative, the 8(a) program is ripe for fraud. White business owners can find a minority front man or a woman to head a nominally disadvantaged or woman-owned firm, which the white man continues to run behind the scenes. Another option is for minority-owned firms to receive the government contract but act as “pass through,” taking a cut off the top and paying another firm to do the contracted work. The Supreme Court ruled last year against a “disadvantaged” company that provided none of the required paint for a Philadelphia bridge and train station and passed the work to other firms. Out-and-out dishonesty is also common. In 2023, Margarita Howard and her companies HX5 and HX5 Sierra were forced to pay the government almost $8 million for lying about Howard’s assets in order to participate in 8(a). At the time she claimed to be disadvantaged, Howard was living in a 14,000-square-foot waterside Florida mansion featured on HGTV’s Extreme Homes, the complaint against…

NIH Lab Studying Deadly Pathogens Reported Biological Incident In November: Federal Records The White Coat Waste Project - which you may remember for exposing Dr. Anthony Fauci's sick experiments on beagles in 2024 - has obtained a document revealing that the National Institutes of Health's (NIH) Rocky Mountain Laboratories (RML) in Hamilton, Montana reported a biological incident in November 2025. The National Institutes of Health’s Rocky Mountain Laboratories campus in Hamilton is flanked by boulders in front and mountains in back.(Katheryn Houghton/KFF Health News) RML, which operates BSL-2, BSL-3, and BSL-4 'full suit' laboratories notably studies viral hemorrhagic fevers such as Ebola, Marburg and Lassa virus, as well as coronaviruses, dangerous bacteria, tuberculosis, tick-borne pathogens (Rocky Mountain spotted fever, for example), West Nile virus, Prion diseases, and others. According to a November 2025 biosafety report obtained by WCWP, a 'Form 3' was reported to the Federal Select Agent Program on Nov. 13, 2025. Form 3 is a mandatory notification form used to alert the Federal Select Agent Program of any 'theft, loss, or release' involving select agents or toxins, Infowars' Breanna Morello reports after interviewing WCWP's Justin Goodman - who called Rocky Mountain Laboratories 'one of the most dangerous biolabs in the country.' White Coat Waste Project obtained this BSO report from RML, via Infowars Watch: 🚨EXCLUSIVE🚨 A Fauci federal bio lab in Montana can’t locate a biological agent. The biological agent is either stolen, lost or was released, according to documents obtained by The White Coat Waste Project. SVP @JustinRGoodman joins me to detail the new documents. pic.twitter.com/NmwQ70tod9 — Breanna Morello (@BreannaMorello) January 20, 2026 Partial transcript below: Morello: "You've recently obtained these documents over at the White Coat Waste Project, which detail specifically the threat that a bio agent, which apparently is classified as potentially posing a severe threat to public health, has been either stolen, lost, or released. What are some of the details behind this concerning story?" Goodman: "Now, we recently—last week—exposed how Jay Bhattacharya, NIH director, just gave another $2 million to a bat lab being built at Colorado State University to provide animals for infection studies. Both the Colorado State and, as you mentioned, the Rocky Mountain Lab... Now, the Rocky Mountain Laboratory in Montana is run by Fauci's former NIH division, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. "It is very infamous. The Rocky Mountain Lab is where ticks were weaponized with NIH and DOD to spread Lyme and other diseases back to the 1960s and '70s. More recently, White Coat Waste exposed how—a couple years prior to the pandemic—the Rocky Mountain Laboratory was cloning coronaviruses that Peter Daszak and the Wuhan lab were finding out in bat caves in Wuhan. They were cloning those viruses at Rocky Mountain Laboratory." "These are the same viruses that the Wuhan Lab was doing gain-of-function with, putting spike proteins around at around the same time. The Rocky Mountain Lab has a very sordid history doing the most dangerous experiments in this country—Ebola, plague, anthrax, lots of different hemorrhagic fevers that have no cure and 90-95% kill rates in people. So we've been following the money to the Rocky Mountain Lab because this new Colorado State bat lab is going to be supplying bats to these facilities. "Now, what we just uncovered is that in November 2025—just a couple months ago—quietly, NIH posted a biosafety test to see if there's any from Rocky Mountain Lab, indicating that a select agent... Now, select agents are very deadly pathogens—serious health concerns for both humans and livestock. These are things used as bioweapons, things like ricin, anthrax, Ebola, tularemia. The Rocky Mountain Lab report just has a very benign item—if you didn't know what we were looking for—one of these…