Liberal megadonor’s son fumes at left-wing climate group over latest obsession: ‘What the hell’
Alex Soros, the son of notorious billionaire George Soros and chair of the Open Society Foundations, took aim at a left-wing climate group, saying: “All they do is talk about Palestine.”
In an interview with New York Magazine in which he detailed his plans to fund efforts to foil the Trump administration’s agenda, Soros expressed his frustration with the leftist environmentalist group “Sunrise Movement,” which is heavily funded by Soros-backed organizations.
“What the hell did they do, by the way?” Soros, who is Jewish, complained. “We gave them money, and now all they do is talk about Palestine. It’s ridiculous.”
During the 2020 election season, Sunrise Movement, whose website says it wants to “force the government to end the era of fossil fuel elites,” received nearly a third of its funding from the Soros-backed Democracy PAC and Sixteen-Thirty Fund, totaling $750,000.
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Shortly after receiving these funds, Sunrise stepped into a massive controversy sparked by its Washington, D.C., chapter posting an antisemitic statement in which it vowed to boycott any events co-sponsored by “Zionist” Jewish groups.
In an October 2021 statement on “future coalition spaces with Zionist organizations,” Sunrise DC said it was declining to participate in a D.C. statehood rally specifically because of the inclusion of the Jewish Council on Public Affairs, the National Council of Jewish Women and the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism, which it said “are all in alignment with and in support of Zionism and the State of Israel.”
Sunrise DC called Israel a “colonial project” that “treats all Palestinians, as well as Black and brown Jewish-Israelis, as second-class citizens.” The group went on to ask the event organizers to remove the Jewish groups from participation, saying that the D.C. statehood movement is “incompatible with Zionism.”
The statement was quickly slammed as blatantly antisemitic.
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One user named Blake Flayton, a Jewish podcaster, called out the group, commenting, “You are intentionally pushing Jewish people outside of your movement.”
“You are associating Jews in the United States with the actions of Israel,” added Flayton. “This is antisemitic. You are antisemites.”
In a follow-up post published several days later, Sunrise DC apologized for singling out the three Jewish organizations while not mentioning other groups associated with the event “with similar positions.” The group doubled down on its stance against Zionism, calling it an “ideology that has led to Palestinians being violently pushed out of their homes since 1948.”
The group said it was “committed to learning and growing as we continue to stand against Zionism, antisemitism, anti-Palestinian racism, and all other forms of oppression.”
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This post was also widely panned as antisemitic, with one user named Joel Petlin commenting that Sunrise was “trying to get out of a hole they dug for themselves by digging it deeper.”
“*We apologize for singling out 3 Jewish organizations when we should’ve singled out everyone who doesn’t hate Israel* is not actually an apology. It’s just doubling down on Antisemitism,” said Petlin.
This past October, Sunrise Movement published a long Instagram post railing against Israel, saying, “Climate justice means freedom for Palestinians.”
“Why? Because Israel’s ongoing oppression of Palestinians means they will suffer some of the most devastating impacts of climate change, and Israel’s constant bombing harms the climate, ultimately harming us all,” Sunrise Movement continued. “While committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza, the Israeli military – which is backed and armed by the US – has released more carbon emissions than 20 of the world’s most climate-vulnerable nations combined.
Democrats and left-wing leaders have long called criticisms of George Soros, who is a Hungarian-born Jew, antisemitic attacks. However, the Soros family’s funding of progressive anti-Israel agitators across the country, including those who mobilized at New York City’s Columbia University, has raised eyebrows as well.
Fox News Digital previously reported on Israel’s minister of diaspora affairs and social equality, Amichai Chikli, saying that Alex is a mirror image of his father’s anti-Israel agenda.
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When asked if Alex will continue to fund anti-Israel entities that bash the Jewish state, Chikli said it “looks like the son is a replica of his father. We have no expectation that his son will be a big Zionist.”
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Chikli noted that the Soros foundation “gives money to radical small Palestinian organizations in Israel that describe Israel as a colonial state and a moral sin.”
Fox News Digital reached out to Open Society Foundations and the Sunrise Movement for comment, but neither responded in time for publication.
Trump tells Putin to ‘STOP’ after Russia’s deadly missile strikes on Kyiv
President Donald Trump demanded that Russian President Vladimir Putin halt strikes on Kyiv, Ukraine, as Washington continues its efforts to broker a peace deal.
“I am not happy with the Russian strikes on KYIV. Not necessary, and very bad timing. Vladimir, STOP! 5,000 soldiers a week are dying. Let’s get the peace deal DONE,” Trump wrote on Truth Social.
The Thursday attack on Ukraine killed at least 10 and injured at least 90, including children, Ukraine said.
Trump expressed hope on Easter that Russia and Ukraine could reach a deal this week, saying that once an agreement is reached, they would be able to “start to do big business with the United States of America…”
On April 11, in another Truth Social post, Trump urged Russia “to get moving” toward ending the war, lamenting that “too many people are dying” in a war that he described as “senseless.”
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Trump administration officials claimed they had productive talks with Putin, but they have yet to secure a deal that would end the war that has been raging since Russia’s February 2022 invasion. Recently, several members of the administration suggested that the U.S. could end its efforts to secure a peace deal if Ukraine and Russia do not start making significant moves toward ending the war.
Vice President JD Vance appeared to issue an ultimatum to Ukraine and Russia on Wednesday: make a deal or risk the U.S. walking away.
“We’ve issued a very explicit proposal to both the Russians and Ukrainians, and it’s time for them to either say yes or for the U.S. to walk away from this process. We’ve engaged in an extraordinary amount of diplomacy, of on-the-ground work,” Vance told reporters.
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Secretary of State Marco Rubio told reporters something similar on April 18, when he said that the president was nearing “a point where he’s going to say, well, we’re done.”
Trump also criticized Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy for making an “inflammatory” statement that the U.S. president said was “very harmful” to peace efforts. Zelenskyy said that Ukraine would not recognize Russian control of Crimea, which was taken in 2014. Trump downplayed Zelenskyy’s red line, saying it was “not even up for discussion.”
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In the Truth Social post from Wednesday, Trump appeared to allude to his infamous clash with Zelenskyy in the Oval Office, calling the Ukrainian leader “the man with no cards to play.” This echoed Trump’s remarks during the tense February meeting in which he said that Zelenskyy didn’t “have the cards” to make major demands in peace talks.
Democrats embrace even cruder tactics against Republicans
“Resistance” Democrats are starting to abandon civil politics in favor of a new provocative and combative “dark woke,” a new report says.
The term “dark woke” refers to an online meme that gained popularity in January amid President Donald Trump’s inauguration. Under the “#darkwoke” tag, left-leaning X users share jokes and memes delighting in or wishing for the suffering of Trump supporters.
Though the term is largely an online phenomenon, some members of the Democratic Party are beginning to see some benefits to the “crass” and “rude” attitude.
“Republicans have essentially put Democrats in a respectability prison,” Bhavik Lathia, a communications consultant and former digital director for the Wisconsin Democratic Party, told the New York Times on Monday. “There is an extreme imbalance in strategy that allows Republicans to say stuff that really grabs voters’ attention, where we’re stuck saying boring pablum. I see this as a strategic shift within Democratic messaging — I’m a big fan of ‘dark woke.’”
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The Times used Texas Rep. Jasmine Crockett as an example of Democrats going on the offensive against Republicans, such as her attacking Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., for having a “bleached-blonde, bad-built, butch body.”
According to The Times, more Democrats are following Crockett’s lead as party insiders encourage politicians to use “a new form of combative rhetoric aimed at winning back voters who have responded to President Trump’s no-holds-barred version of politics.”
Many Democrats have taken to injecting profanity into their vocabulary in response to MAGA and in an attempt at “authenticity.”
“[C]ommunications consultants for Democratic politicians have encouraged — or allowed — more swearing. Profanity, [Democratic strategist Tyson] Brody, 38, said, is often seen as a ‘shortcut to authenticity,’ though it can also be overused and backfire,” The Times reported.
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One notable example included a series of videos by Senate Democrats as part of the “Sh– That Ain’t True” social media campaign, which featured the politicians all reading from the same script swearing as they attacked Trump for breaking campaign promises.
The “dark woke” ethos is seen as a necessary retaliation against the right-wing for younger Democratic Party members.
“All these new staffers, we grew up seeing extremely vile content overflowing from right-wing spaces into regular spaces,” Caleb Brock, director of digital strategy for Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., told the Times. “We’re ready to combat that by any means necessary.”
This embrace of “dark woke” marks a significant shift from former First Lady Michelle Obama’s famous “when they go low, we go high” quote from her speech at the 2016 Democratic National Convention.
By contrast, Democratic Brooklyn councilman Chi Ossé quoted a line from one of Democratic New York City Mayor Eric Adams’ aides to The Times, “When they go low, you gotta dig for oil.”
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Fox News Digital reached out to the Democratic National Committee for comment.
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Fetterman calls for bombing of US adversary’s nuclear facilities: ‘Diseased regime’
Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., is continuing to advocate for the destruction of Iran’s nuclear program.
“Waste that s—,” the lawmaker declared to the Washington Free Beacon. “You’re never going to be able to negotiate with that kind of regime that has been destabilizing the region for decades already, and now we have an incredible window, I believe, to do that, to strike and destroy Iran’s nuclear facilities.”
“Years ago, I completely understood why Trump withdrew from the Obama deal. Today, I can’t understand why Trump would negotiate with this diseased regime. The negotiations should be comprised of 30,000-pound bombs and the IDF,” Fetterman noted, according to the outlet. The IDF is the Israel Defense Forces.
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Fox News Digital reached out to Fetterman’s office to request a comment from the senator on Thursday morning but did not receive a response by the time of publication.
The lawmaker, who is a staunch supporter of Israel, had already been calling for the elimination of Iran’s nuclear program.
Fetterman declared last week in a post on X, “The only purpose of Iran’s nuclear program is to create weapons. We can’t allow that or negotiate with this regime. Provide our comprehensive military support and whatever else Israel requires to destroy Iran’s capabilities.”
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President Donald Trump noted earlier this week that he had spoken to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
“I’ve just spoken to Prime Minister of Israel, Bibi Netanyahu, relative to numerous subjects including Trade, Iran, etc. The call went very well – We are on the same side of every issue,” Trump said in a Tuesday post on Truth Social.
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Fetterman declared in part of an X post in January, “Whatever remains of Iran’s nuclear program needs to be destroyed and I fully support efforts to do so.”
Watchdog group uncovers eye-popping amount Harvard gets in federal funding
FIRST ON FOX: Amid Harvard’s battle with the Trump administration, which has already pulled billions in federal funding from the university and floated taking even more, fiscal watchdog OpenTheBooks decided to take a peek at how much money the top-tier Ivy League school actually stands to lose.
Harvard has received at least $4.4 billion in federal funding through grants, contracts, sub-grants and subcontracts since the first Trump administration in 2017, the watchdog found through open-source analysis of government spending records and other publicly available data. Meanwhile, based on these numbers, Harvard collected more in federal grants and contracts than they stood to gain through tuition, room and board in any given year.
OpenTheBooks also unearthed that Harvard’s $53.2 billion endowment has grown by $14 billion, or $2 billion annually, since 2018. In total, the top-tier Ivy League school has more than $7 million per undergraduate student, the watchdog’s report indicated.
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The analysis of Harvard’s finances from OpenTheBooks comes as the institution is suing the Trump administration over the freezing of its federal funds.
After refusing to comply with President Trump’s executive directives on antisemitism, DEI, viewpoint diversity and more, the Trump administration pulled $2.2 billion in multi-year grants and $60 million in multi-year government contracts. The Trump administration has indicated the potential for further cuts as well if the school does not fold to the president’s demands, and is also considering stripping Harvard’s tax-exempt status.
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Harvard’s lawsuit against the Trump administration sets up a fight over higher education autonomy, with the university alleging in its suits against multiple federal agencies that the Trump administration’s demands infringe on the school’s right to educate and learn free of government coercion.
Harvard University did not respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment on this story.
“America’s university system is still the envy of the world and maintaining that advantage is a matter of national security,” OpenTheBooks CEO John Hart told Fox News Digital. “Harvard can lead the way in that process by rejecting totalitarian progressive fundamentalism and reviving America’s commitment to classical liberalism, true free speech, true science over ‘the science’ and rigorous, open debate.”
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In addition to Harvard’s failure to comply with the president’s executive orders, the Trump administration also accused Harvard of failing to report large foreign donations, as required by law, and has opened an investigation into the matter. On Wednesday, the president signed an executive order threatening to cut off federal funding from colleges and universities that fail to disclose their sources of foreign money.
Using data that Harvard has reported to the government pertaining to its foreign donations, OpenTheBooks found that, since 2017, Harvard has accepted at least $1.1 billion in gifts or contracts from foreign sources.
The top countries contributing to Harvard are England and China, which have each given over $100 billion to Harvard over the last eight years. Per federal law, universities are required to report payments that exceed $250,000 from foreign sources.
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“As a private university, they’re free to pursue any topic they like – as long as their campus stays within the confines of the Constitution – but that doesn’t automatically entitle them to our tax money,” Hart added in his comments to Fox News Digital about the Ivy League school’s finances.
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“Harvard can revive its commitment to academic freedom by explaining why it’s receiving millions from China, and potentially Iran proxies, and why it’s spending tax dollars on far-Left research and race-based identity politics.”
Former ESPN anchor says she was ‘chewed out’ for photo with GOP lawmaker, UFC fighter
Former ESPN broadcaster Ashley Brewer Kaminsky revealed an issue one of her former bosses had with her over a post that showed up on her social media years ago.
Brewer commiserated with another former ESPN anchor, Sage Steele, on X about certain incidents that occurred at their old workplace. Steele initially reacted to the allegations and civil lawsuit against Shannon Sharpe when Brewer Kaminsky weighed in.
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“Never forget when I got chewed out by my boss for posting a pic of a republican congressman & UFC fighter on my instagram story at the Mcgregor fight. LOL,” she wrote on X.
Steele then posted a picture of the two of them on the “SportsCenter” set at ESPN.
“And @ashbrewkaminsky remember when we got chewed out for breaking Covid rules by standing too close to each other and posting this pic?” Steele wrote on X.
Brewer Kaminsky responded, “But sitting next to each other at the desk live on TV was totally fine!!”
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Brewer Kaminsky was a high school swimming star in Arizona and competed for the Texas Longhorns before she transferred to USC. She attempted to make the Olympic swim team before starting her career as a sports anchor.
She worked at local stations in Arizona and California before moving to ESPN in 2020. She was eventually laid off in 2023.
She married former NBA player Frank Kaminsky in 2023. He was a standout at Wisconsin before being selected No. 9 overall in the 2015 NBA Draft by the Charlotte Hornets.
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He last played in the NBA for the Houston Rockets during the 2022-23 season.
Baltimore Orioles announces history-making baseball star dead at 59
Chito Martinez, the only MLB player to ever hail from Belize, has died, the Baltimore Orioles announced on Tuesday. He was 59.
Martinez played three years in the majors for the Orioles as an outfielder from 1991 to 1993. He played in 158 career games, hitting .259 with 18 home runs, 58 RBI and 22 doubles.
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“We mourn the passing of former Orioles outfielder Chito Martinez, the only native of Belize to play in the majors,” the Orioles said in a post on X.
Dalton Martinez, Chito’s son, wrote on X that his father passed away on Easter.
“Sunday night on Easter, my dad was taken away off this earth unexpectedly,” he wrote. “We desperately need help in this time. My father was one of the best men. Taught the game of baseball the right way. Taught young men how to be better. His presence in my life can never be replaced. As I pick up the pieces to my life, please consider helping.
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“A kind soul has left us too soon.”
The cause of death was not made known.
Chito Martinez was a sixth-round pick in the 1984 Draft by the Kansas City Royals out of Brother Martin High School in New Orleans.
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The Royals released him in 1990 and he signed with the Orioles days later. The Orioles released him after the 1993 season and he later joined the Minnesota Twins. But he never made an appearance with the Twins.
The state called Michael Camerano, a family friend of John O’Keefe’s, to the witness stand on Thursday morning.
Camerano testified the friends were planning to go out for drinks at a nearby bar to celebrate their daughters’ acceptance into Bishop Feehan High School and were joined by Karen Read later in the evening.
During the defense team’s cross-examination, Camerano confirmed the couple appeared affectionate at the bar before Camerano left, with Read and O’Keefe staying behind.
Camerano testified he was seemingly unaware of any disagreements between Read and O’Keefe that day, and that O’Keefe seemed to be happy with the couple’s relationship. Camerano did tell Read’s defense team she did not like having other women around O’Keefe, but the relationship appeared normal to his knowledge.
In a 2024 television interview with Investigation Discovery, Karen Read recounted drinking at McCarthy’s bar the evening John O’Keefe was killed, describing how she poured multiple shots of alcohol into her glass because the bar was serving weak drinks.
“The guys that we were with ordered a round of shots and gave me one that I didn’t drink, but I poured it in my drink,” Read said. “So that’s now my fifth and sixth drinks, with the seventh, which is a shot that all the men did and I poured it. So that’s one glass that I’m holding,” adding the cocktail had, “three drinks in it.”
Following the interview being presented to the jury, Judge Beverly Cannone sent the jurors home for the day following confusion regarding witness scheduling.
Following the court’s morning recess, detective Nicholas Guarino began reading text messages between Karen Read and John O’Keefe from the morning before the pair went out drinking, showing an apparent disagreement between the couple.
“Sick of always arguing and fighting,” O’Keefe wrote. “It’s been weekly for several months now. So yeh I’m not as quick to jump back into being lovie dovie as you apparently.”
Following several text messages and declined phone calls, Read later replied, telling O’Keefe, “I’ve been trying to get over the hump w is arguing and now you tell me you’re not into things. And you don’t want to fight weekly but fly off the handle at 8am w me. Like you’re setting me up to fail.”
The back-and-forth between the pair continued, with Read inviting O’Keefe out for drinks later in the evening.
The defense previously asked Judge Beverly Cannone to allow a third-party to read the text messages, but Cannone sided with the state by ruling Guarino will read to the jury.
Detective Nicholas Guarino returned to the witness stand to answer questions regarding the department’s cell phone data extraction methods.
The state asked Guarino to verify call logs between Karen Read, John O’Keefe and various key witnesses within the case on the day of O’Keefe’s death that Guarino gathered from their cell phones – a process required to enter items into evidence, Judge Beverly Cannone told the jury.
Cannone then asked the court to break for its morning recess.
Following yesterday’s testimony, Karen Read’s father, William, spoke to reporters on the steps of the courthouse, doubling down on his daughter’s assertion that she did not kill John O’Keefe.
“Karen Read is innocent,” William said. “She is not responsible. There was no collision. None. And it will be proven. When you hear the testimony of these witnesses from the state you will see how they are buckling.”
Read’s father went on to praise the defense team, telling reporters he hopes to be called to the witness stand and addressing testimony from Peggy O’Keefe on his actions the day John’s body was found.
During Peggy’s emotional testimony on Wednesday, she said Karen, alongside William and her brother, entered John’s house shortly after the family left the hospital and went upstairs into a bedroom to gather a few belongings.
“I know the truth,” William said. “I was there. I was in the O’Keefe house that day. I know why we went back, I know what we did when we went there, I know how long we were upstairs. I know it all and I don’t lie at my age, I answer to another maker.”
Day three of Karen Read’s second murder trial kicked off with Judge Beverly Cannone granting the state’s request to play a 2024 interview Read gave to Investigation Discovery regarding an alleged conversation between Read and Peggy O’Keefe in the hours after John O’Keefe’s body was discovered.
“His mother leans over the kitchen island and says to me, ‘I think he looks like he got hit by a car, he looks like he got hit by a car,’” Read said.
The defense asked Cannone to omit the interview after the jury was dismissed yesterday, with the judge ultimately siding with the prosecution and allowing jurors to view the recording.
Kerry Roberts, a close friend of John O’Keefe’s who was with Karen Read
and Jennifer McCabe the morning they found him dead in a snowstorm, admitted during cross-examination Wednesday that she did not hear the defendant ask McCabe to make a Google search about hypothermia after they found the body.
“Hos long to die in cold” is the infamous Google search, typo included, at the heart of the 45-year-old Read’s claim that she is being framed by Massachusetts police for the death of her Boston cop boyfriend three years ago.
Roberts, when asked in 2022 in front of a grand jury that would indict Read on a second-degree murder charge
, testified that she heard Read ask McCabe to “Google hypothermia” while they were praying near a police car as paramedics lifted O’Keefe out of the snow.
“Yeah,” she said.
“Except it’s not true, is it?” Read’s attorney, Alan Jackson, followed up.
“I did not hear her ask that,” Roberts said.
Roberts testified that she did not intentionally lie but rather misunderstood the question when she appeared before the grand jury.
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The third day of Karen Read’s second murder trial is set to kick off Thursday. Read is facing a retrial for the alleged killing of her boyfriend, Boston police officer John O’Keefe, in January 2022.
Prosecutors allege Read struck O’Keefe with her Lexus SUV during a drunken argument, before leaving him to die
in a winter blizzard outside a fellow police officer’s home. Read’s defense team insists she was framed in an elaborate scheme that involved a “corrupted” investigation led by now-fired investigator Michael Proctor.
On Wednesday, the jury heard testimony from various state witnesses, including O’Keefe’s mother, Peggy, and long-time family friend, Kerry Roberts. If convicted, Read faces up to life in prison.