Pro-Israel students at Cornell rip university for hosting Israel-hating singer at upcoming concert

Pro-Israel Cornell University students are slamming their school for hosting an upcoming concert featuring a famous anti-Israel R&B artist.

As reported by The Washington Free Beacon, outraged students signed a petition calling on Cornell to un-invite musician Kehlani from performing at the school’s annual “Slope Day” concert on May 7. Kehlani has shared multiple anti-Israel messages in her music and on her social media pages in recent years, including a call for an “intifada.”

“The fact that the university would allow for students to bring in a performer with views that actively call for violence to an event where she is supposed to represent all students makes me feel like I am not a respected member of this community,” the petition stated.

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Cornell University announced earlier this month that the Grammy-nominated artist would be headlining the concert, an annual, end-of-the-year show put on by a student-run board and funded through a Student Activities Fee that all undergraduate students must pay.

The fee for the 2024-2025 school year is $384 per student and is expected to rise to $424 for the next academic year, the Free Beacon reported.

However, pro-Israel and Jewish students pushed back against the board’s decision to hire Kehlani, pointing to a variety of her social media posts shared after the Oct. 7 Hamas terror attack in Israel.

In one, she wrote, “it’s f— Israel from the top of my lungs. Idc [I don’t care] about the f—– threats. DISMANTLE ISRAEL. ERADICATE ZIONISM.”

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In another, she called out any “Zionists” following her social media accounts, stating, “the scum of the earth. You’re the scum of the earth. Although I can’t imagine a Zionist would still be following me at this point. Go to hell.”

She also shared posts expressing a wish for Palestinians to take over the entire state of Israel and even called for an intifada in the music video for her song, “Next 2 U.” During the video, words flashed on screen stating, “LONG LIVE THE INTIFADA,” a message seen by Jewish people as a call to violently overthrow Israel.

Kehlani and her dancers could be seen in the video wearing outfits incorporating the black-and-white keffiyeh scarf design, often worn by Palestinians signaling their opposition to the Jewish state.

In the petition calling on Cornell to hire a different singer, pro-Israel Cornell students argued that Kehlani’s anti-Israel messages “go far beyond political critique” and go after the “vast majority of Jews” at the school who consider themselves Zionist.

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Cornell University president Michael Kotlikoff responded to the concerned pro-Israel students, stating last Thursday that school staff didn’t find “out about the social media of this performer roughly three weeks ago,” and adding that it is “too late to secure another performer that will be acceptable or appropriate for Slope Day.”

He tried to placate those complaining by stating that the school has “altered that contract to make it clear that if there are any political events at the performance, there is full forfeit of the whole compensation.”

Cornell’s choice to host Kehlani comes as the Trump administration has frozen $1 billion in federal grants to the university while it is being investigated for civil rights violations concerning antisemitism and other issues on campus. President Donald Trump has also frozen grants to Harvard University and other Ivy League schools for the same reasons.

Cornell did not immediately reply to Fox News Digital’s request for comment.

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Carlos Santana postpones Texas concert after suffering from dehydration

Carlos Santana was forced to postpone a concert in San Antonio, Texas, on Tuesday night after he was taken in for observation for dehydration, a representative for the musician confirmed to Fox News Digital.

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“It is with profound disappointment that I have to inform you all that tonight’s show in San Antonio has been postponed,” Michael Jensen of Jensen Communications said. “Mr. Santana was at the venue (Majestic Theatre) preparing for tonight’s show when he experienced an event that was determined to be dehydration. Out of an abundance of caution and the health of Mr. Santana, the decision to postpone the show was the most prudent course of action. He is doing well and is looking forward to coming back to San Antonio soon as well as continuing his US Tour. Thank you all very much for your understanding. The show will be rescheduled soon.”

Family-friendly golf course puts cheating couple on blast over parking lot affair: Not ‘Jerry Springer'

Of all the hazards a golf course might face, a parking lot affair by the recycling bin wasn’t exactly on the scorecard for Skylinks at Buchanan Fields in California.

For the business, a public 9-hole course in East Bay, the biggest drama of the season hasn’t come from a bunker or a blown putt.

It has come from two parked cars in the far corner of the lot, where an alleged weekly rendezvous has transformed a family-friendly fairway into the site of a full-blown soap opera.

A spicy Instagram post from the course lit up social media last week with this opening line:

“To the late 30’s married wife in the black car who’s having a secret affair and with the guy in the smaller silver car who’ve decided to using (sic) the back right corner of our Skylinks carpark to meet weekly… PLEASE STOP.”

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That blunt PSA, posted without names but full of implication, quickly went viral, racking up shares, memes, and speculation from curious commenters and suspicious spouses across the Bay Area and beyond.

“We’re a family golf course — not some Jerry Springer family destruction zone,” the post concluded, before warning: “If it happens again, we’ll drop the footage and watch all hell break loose.”

In an exclusive interview with Fox News Digital, the golf course’s owner, a New Zealand native who goes simply by “Kiwi,” confirmed the post was very real, the footage does exist, and no, this is not a marketing stunt.

“We’re a small, community course in Concord — not a drive-thru hookup spot for cheaters,” Kiwi said, deadpan. “This isn’t the kind of hole-in-one we encourage.”

According to Kiwi, staff began noticing the pattern about two months ago with the same cars, the same day of the week, and the same far corner of the lot, which sees basically zero legitimate golf traffic.

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“You don’t park way in the back to go play a quick round,” Kiwi said. “There’s no reason to be near the recycling bin unless you’re dropping off cardboard… or something else.”

The maintenance crew, which starts work around 5 a.m., would routinely spot the black car and silver car pulling in one after the other.

“One of our guys finally said, ‘Here they go again — early bird smash session in the car park,’ and after that we couldn’t un-hear it.”

It became a running joke, until it wasn’t. 

“It’s a family space. I’ve got two daughters. We’ve got kids playing under the pomegranate tree 20 feet from where this was happening. At a certain point, it’s just gross. Like — go to the hotel across the street. It’s 100 yards away, and it has doors.”

Once Skylinks posted the PSA, things got even messier. The post went viral, and the DMs flooded in.

“We started getting messages from people saying, ‘Hey, I think I know who this is. Send me the footage.’ Like, no! That’s not what we’re doing here,” Kiwi said. “We’re not here to destroy people’s lives. We just want them to stop using our parking lot like it’s a poorly disguised drive-in.”

One man even contacted the course because his wife drives a black car and he “just wanted to be sure.”

“That’s when I knew this thing had really blown up,” Kiwi laughed.

Despite all the attention, Kiwi says the footage will stay locked up — for now. “We’ve got the footage, and yes, it’s very clear what’s going on. But no, we’re not releasing it. This is still a family business, not an episode of Dateline.”

Still, the viral fame has brought new attention to Skylinks, a public course with a comeback story of its own.

Once nearly shut down, the course was revived by Kiwi after he bought it a little over a year ago. Since then, he’s tripled business and turned it into a thriving community hub, he said.

“We think of ourselves as a community club, not a country club,” Kiwi said. “It’s full of people just learning to play, local families, and folks grabbing lunch and hitting a bucket of balls.”

Kiwi, originally from New Zealand and married to an American, personally learned how to golf at Skylinks and fell in love with the course before buying it.

Though the tone of the post was cheeky, their message is serious. While Skylinks has seen some curious newcomers trying to park near the now-infamous dumpster for a photo op, Kiwi is hoping the viral attention fades and the back lot goes back to being empty.

And to those still tempted to turn a 9-hole golf course into a lovers’ lane?

Kiwi has one piece of advice to the public: “Keep your hole-in-ones on the course, not in our car park.”

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But to the couple specifically, Kiwi had a little something extra.

“I now know who you are. I don’t know why you picked our parking lot. But what I do know is I have a very particular set of footage—footage we’ve gathered over months of running this golf course. Footage that will make me a nightmare for cheaters like you.”

“If you check into the hotel 100 yards away and keep it off my property, that’ll be the end of it. I won’t look for you, I won’t pursue you. But if you do return to the car park dumpster one more time, I’ll release the footage — and it’s game over. Good luck.”

Kiwi’s channeling of the movie “Taken” might be tongue-in-cheek, but the message is dead serious: Hook up somewhere else.

Trump admin files first racketeering charges against massive migrant terrorist group present in U.S.

The first RICO racketeering charges against members and associates of the migrant terrorist group Tren de Aragua were filed this week in New York.

A statement by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York said that the case is part of “Operation Take Back America,” which it said is a “nationwide initiative that marshals the full resources of the Justice Department to repel the invasion of illegal immigration, achieve the total elimination of cartels and transnational criminal organizations (TCOs), and protect our communities from the perpetrators of violent crime.”

According to the statement, the charges filed against 27 alleged current and former Tren de Aragua (TdA) members include human smuggling, sex trafficking and murder.

“Today, we have filed charges against 27 alleged members, former members, and associates of Tren de Aragua, for committing murders and shootings, forcing young women trafficked from Venezuela into commercial sex work, robbing and extorting small businesses, and selling ‘tusi,’ a pink powdery drug that has become their calling card,” announced Matthew Podolsky, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York.

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Podolsky said that the indictments “make clear that this Office will work tirelessly to keep the law-abiding residents of New York City safe, and hold accountable those who bring violence to our streets.”

The charges were filed in two separate indictments, the first against six alleged current members of Tren de Aragua and the second against 21 alleged members and associates of a splinter gang known as “Anti-Tren,” which consists of former TdA members.

The Trump State Department has designated Tren de Aragua, as well as several other migrant gangs present throughout the U.S., as foreign terrorist organizations.

The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York said that 21 of the 27 alleged gang members and associates are currently in federal custody. The statement said that 16 were already in federal criminal, immigration, or state custody and five were arrested over the last couple of days.

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Most of the alleged gang members are in their twenties, with the oldest being 44. Many are facing multiple life in prison sentences if they are found guilty.

Charges include racketeering, sex trafficking, alien importation, drug trafficking and carjacking conspiracy, robbery, illegal firearms possession and use and extortion.

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Among the most egregious of the charges included in the indictments are the smuggling of “multadas” – indentured sex workers – from Venezuela into Peru and the U.S. According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office statement, both TdA and Anti-Tren operate keep the multadas trapped in a life of sex slavery by threatening to kill them and their families and by assaulting, shooting and killing them and tracking down those who attempted to flee.

U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi commented on the RICO charges, saying: “Today’s indictments and arrests span three states and will devastate TdA’s infrastructure as we work to completely dismantle and purge this organization from our country.”

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“Tren de Aragua is not just a street gang,” said Bondi. “It is a highly structured terrorist organization that has destroyed American families with brutal violence, engaged in human trafficking, and spread deadly drugs through our communities.”

New York Police Department Commissioner Jessica Tisch also praised the operations, saying that “for the first time ever, TdA is being named and charged as the criminal enterprise that it is.”

“This gang has shown zero regard for the safety of New Yorkers,” said Tisch. “As alleged in the indictment, these defendants wreaked havoc in our communities, trafficking women for sexual exploitation, flooding our streets with drugs, and committing violent crimes with illegal guns. Thanks to the dedicated members of the NYPD and the important work of our federal partners, their time is up.”

The U.S. Attorney’s Office statement also mentioned that this case received significant support from Joint Task Force Vulcan, a collection of U.S. attorneys’ offices and law enforcement agencies that was created in 2019 to eradicate the Salvadoran gang MS-13 and has now expanded to target Tren de Aragua.

Voice of America restored by judge after Trump dismantled taxpayer-funded outlet in March

A federal judge ordered the restoration of Voice of America (VoA) on Tuesday, the federally-funded state media network that the White House dismantled earlier this spring.

Judge Royce Lamberth ruled in favor of the plaintiff’s request for a preliminary injunction, though the Trump administration is allowed to appeal the decision.

The plaintiffs asked the court to “cancel the orders putting approximately 1,300 VOA employees on administrative leave” and to “cancel the termination of contracts with approximately 500 personal service contractors (PSCs) with VOA, cease dismantling VOA, and restore VOA’s personnel and operating capacities.”

President Donald Trump dismantled the news agency through an executive order (EO) in March, claiming that VoA promoted biased reporting.

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“The non-statutory components and functions of the following governmental entities shall be eliminated to the maximum extent consistent with applicable law, and such entities shall reduce the performance of their statutory functions and associated personnel to the minimum presence and function required by law,” the EO stated.

The EO also dismantled VoA’s parent company, the United States Agency for Global Media, as well as Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.

“Voice of America has been out of step with America for years. It serves as the Voice for Radical America and has pushed divisive propaganda for years now,” a senior White House official told Fox News Digital at the time.

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On Mar. 22, VoA employees filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration and Kari Lake, who serves as the special advisor to the United States Agency for Global Media.

“In many parts of the world, a crucial source of objective news is gone, and only censored state-sponsored news media is left to fill the void,” the lawsuit reads.

“The second Trump administration has taken a chainsaw to the agency as a whole in an attempt to shutter it completely,” the suit stated.

Fox News Digital’s Emma Colton and Hanna Panreck contributed to this report.

Jury rules New York Times did not libel Sarah Palin in defamation case

A federal jury ruled that the New York Times did not libel former Alaskan Republican Gov. Sarah Palin in a 2017 editorial in the latest update to the years-long lawsuit.

The jury reached its decision after deliberating for about two hours following both sides delivering their closing arguments to the Manhattan federal court civil trial. The trial was in its second week.

In a comment to Fox News Digital, NYT spokesperson Danielle Rhoades said, “We want to thank the jurors for their careful deliberations. The decision reaffirms an important tenet of American law: publishers are not liable for honest mistakes.”

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Fox News Digital reached out to Palin’s legal team for comment. It is unclear yet whether she plans to appeal the decision.

Palin, who became a national figure as the 2008 Republican vice presidential pick of the late Sen. John McCain, first sued the paper in 2017 for defamation after claiming an editorial falsely linked her to the deadly 2011 mass shooting that wounded then-Rep. Gabby Giffords, D-Ariz., and killed six people. The editorial was published in response to the 2017 mass shooting at a Republican congressional baseball practice that severely wounded Rep. Steve Scalise, R-La.

The editorial was corrected the next day. Former editorial page editor James Bennet took responsibility for rushing the story and in tearful testimony last week apologized to Palin.

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This was the second time the New York Times was found not liable for defamation in this lawsuit brought by Palin. In 2022, a federal jury unanimously ruled in favor of the publication after U.S. District Court Judge Jed Rakoff had already dismissed the case. Rakoff said at the time that since the case would inevitably be appealed, the court of appeals would benefit from knowing a jury’s decision despite his dismissal.

The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan overturned this decision in 2024, finding that Rakoff’s decision to dismiss the case prior to the jury’s decision qualified the lawsuit for a retrial.

“We have no difficulty concluding that an average jury’s verdict would be affected if several jurors knew that the judge had already ruled for one of the parties on the very claims the jurors were charged with deciding,” 2nd Circuit Judge John Walker Jr. said at the time.

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Florida woman poses as ICE agent to kidnap wife of ex-boyfriend from work, authorities say

A Florida woman posed as a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent and briefly kidnapped her ex-boyfriend’s wife from her job, authorities said.

Wearing a black shirt with ICE printed on the front, Latrance Battle, 52, went to the woman’s workplace at a hotel chain on April 10 wearing a black shirt with ICE printed on the front, according to the Bay County Sheriff’s Office.

Battle, who had a hand-held radio with her, flashed a sheriff’s office business card and told the woman she had to leave with her, the BCSO said.

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“Due to being in fear, the victim got in the vehicle and went willingly with Latrance,” a sheriff’s office statement said. “The victim confirmed that she genuinely felt as if Latrance was an ICE agent at the time and she is in the process of becoming a legal United States resident.”

As Battle drove, she spoke into her hand-held radio, which furthered the victim’s belief that she was being taken by an ICE agent, the kidnapped woman told authorities, according to the Miami Herald.

During the ride, the woman tried calling her husband and her lawyer before Battle “forcefully snatched” the phone from her hand, deputies wrote.

The woman became suspicious when they arrived at the Bridge Plaza apartment complex where Battle said additional ICE agents would be present, the newspaper reported.

“The victim suspected something was wrong because Latrance told the victim they were going to the Sheriff’s Office,” the sheriff’s office said. “As Latrance went inside the apartment, the victim fled and called law enforcement.”

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The woman told deputies that she hid behind a neighbor’s car. When Battle came out of her apartment, she saw the neighbor and asked him if he had seen a woman running, the neighbor told deputies.

Battle told the neighbor she took the woman’s phone because “she knows what she did,” investigators said. The neighbor let the kidnapped woman into his apartment until law enforcement arrived, where she called her husband and described the fake ICE agent, authorities said.

The husband said the description sounded like his ex-girlfriend, who had shown up at his work two years earlier and attacked him, prompting him to file a restraining order against her, according to the Miami Herald.

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Battle was arrested on her way to Alabama and charged with kidnapping in commission of a felony, robbery by sudden snatching, impersonating a law enforcement officer in the commission of a felony and felony violation of probation.

Arizona jury finds 'cult mom' Lori Vallow guilty of conspiring to murder late husband

A jury in Arizona has found Lori Vallow Daybell guilty of conspiring to kill her late husband Charles Vallow after she was convicted in 2023 of killing two of her own children.

Prosecutors allege that Vallow Daybell worked with Alex Cox, her late brother, in order to murder her fourth husband, Charles Vallow, to receive money from a $1 million life insurance policy.

Vallow Daybell and Daybell were convicted for the 2019 murders of Vallow’s two children, 7-year-old Joshua “JJ” Vallow and 16-year-old Tylee Ryan. The couple, who believe some people had dark spirits and shared apocalyptic religious beliefs, were also convicted of murdering Chad Daybell’s first wife, Tammy Daybell. They were sentenced to life in prison.

In a closing statement on Monday, Vallow Daybell, who’s representing herself, told jurors “only you get to decide.”

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“The state put forth a bunch of evidence in this trial to make you dislike me – to try to attack my character so that you would just say guilty no matter what evidence they showed you,” Vallow Daybell said.

Vallow Daybell also argued that prosecutors failed to bring witnesses who had “knowledge of a conspiracy.”

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“The state did not show you evidence of an agreement to commit murder. They showed you evidence of a family tragedy, and then they showed you the sad effects of a family torn apart because of that tragedy,” Vallow Daybell said.

Rather, Vallow Daybell argued that it was her brother who shot Charles Daybell. Vallow Daybell said her late brother and Charles Vallow got into a physical fight at the same time that herself and her daughter, Tylee, were both at home.

Fox News Digital’s Audrey Conklin contributed to this report.

Teachers union boss Randi Weingarten shares her 'concern' with SCOTUS case on LGBTQ books

The Supreme Court is taking on a high-profile First Amendment case after a Maryland school board withdrew its original opt-out policy for books related to gender and sexuality, prompting a federal lawsuit.

While the high court appears to be siding with parents ahead of the final ruling, American Federation of Teachers president Randi Weingarten shared her misgivings about the case.

“My concern about this case is that it could pit people against each other when what we really need to be doing is we need to be making sure that every one of God’s children is accepted in our classrooms,” Weingarten said on “The Story” Tuesday.

“Whether that person is an evangelical Christian or whether that is the daughter or the son of gay parents, that is our obligation in schools. So it’s a failure of all of us that this case is in the Supreme Court right now.”

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Back in 2022, Montgomery County, Maryland introduced new books with LGBTQ+ characters and themes into the elementary school curriculum, as part of the district’s “inclusivity” initiative.

The school district refused to allow parents to opt out of the reading program – the same way older students can forego sex-ed instruction.

While the school board initially allowed parents to keep their children out of this curriculum, the plaintiffs say officials quickly reversed course, announcing in March 2023 that exceptions would not be granted and that parents would not be notified before the books were introduced into their children’s classrooms. Officials cited increased absenteeism as one of the reasons for the change.

Although Weingarten’s union does not have teachers involved in the Maryland county case, she commented on the larger issue of woke ideology and parental rights in education Tuesday.

The union boss affirmed that parents have “rights” when it comes to their children’s education, but she also emphasized the critical role of communities at the local level in needing to hold “sufficient conversations” about “age-appropriate” or “controversial” material.

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Although affirming parental rights, Weingarten was pressed on her emphasis on creating a “welcoming and safe environment” in the classroom despite growing concerns around the nation’s test scores.

“What teachers have to do is we have to embrace everything…that society throws at us,” she told Fox News anchor Martha MacCallum, arguing that the federal role in education is to “fill opportunity gaps” and “help every single child succeed.”

MacCallum pushed back, noting the steep decline in reading and math scores across the nation over the past two decades.

Often called the “Nation’s Report Card,” the 2024 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) is given every two years and considered one of the best indicators of the academic progress of the U.S. school system. The most recent exam was administered in early 2024 in every state, testing fourth- and eighth-grade students on their math and reading skills.

The results showed that, compared to 2022, the average math score for eighth grade students was virtually unchanged, while reading scores fell 2 points at both grade levels. One-third of eighth grade students scored below “basic” in reading, more than ever in the history of the assessment.

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Among the few bright spots was an improvement in fourth grade math, where the average score ticked up 2 points on a scale of 500. But it’s still 3 points lower than the 2019 pre-pandemic average.

Some states have also seen individual successes, including Mississippi which has expanded school choice and teacher training. Weingarten called the progress “terrific” and explained her union is working to do “more” of what Mississippi did to see improvements for students.

Weingarten agreed with MacCallum that an emphasis on woke issues is a “distraction” from learning, but she remained a staunch champion of “both” creating a welcoming and safe classroom and helping students succeed in reading, writing and math.

Fox News Digital’s Bradford Betz, Shannon Bream, David Spunt and Bill Mears contributed to this report.

Mom sues Missouri school that suspended 13-year-old son for making rifle out of Dr. Pepper cans

A mom is suing a Missouri school for suspending her 13-year-old son after he arranged cans of Dr. Pepper in the shape of a rifle and posted a photo of the creation on Snapchat.

“This is unconscionable—my son never hurt or threatened a single person,” Riley Grunden, the mother of the student, who is being called W.G., said in a statement released by Goldwater Institute, who is representing the 13-year-old.

“Instead of using common sense, our own school district treated my child like a criminal for arranging empty soda cans in a way they didn’t like,” Grunden added.  “What happened to his First Amendment rights?”

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W.G. posted a photo of the Dr. Pepper cans on Snapchat with audio titled “Ak47” which had a musical beat with a voiceover saying, “This is the famous AK47, with over 50 million manufactured in ten countries, the AK47 is the most popular assault rifle in the world.”

After the post, which was made off of school grounds, W.G.’s belongings were searched on Sept. 16, 2024, and he was subsequently suspended by the Mountain View-Birch Tree R-III School District for three days. Grunden met with the superintendent and principal on Sept. 17, 2024.

The school allegedly made a permanent note on his school record that he had taken part in “cyberbullying.”

In a statement to Fox News Digital, Lanna Tharp, Mountain View-Birch Tree R-III School District superintendent, said, “The School District is aware of the lawsuit that was recently filed. Unfortunately, because the lawsuit involves a student, we are significantly limited in what we are legally permitted to share publicly. For now, we can only say that we have legal counsel, who will present our side of the story and defend against these allegations.”

The Goldwater Institute filed a lawsuit on April 10, 2025, alleging that the Mountain View-Birch Tree R-III School District and school officials misinterpreted W.G.’s post “in order to justify punishing him for creative expression protected by the First Amendment.”

The Goldwater Institute maintains that because of the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2021 decision in Mahanoy Area School District v. B.L., schools have a narrow amount of power to control speech that is made off-campus.

They also highlight the Missouri’s Constitution’s protections for free speech in Article I, Section 8, which gives a Missourian the right to “communicate whatever he will on any subject,” which the Institute says makes “clear that creative expression like this soda can art project falls squarely within protected activity,” in an April 15, 2025, post about the lawsuit.

According to the lawsuit, Tharp allegedly said, “We have enough information to believe the video has caused fear to at least one student and understandably so. The safety and well-being of our students is our top priority, and we responded swiftly to address the concerns.”

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This despite Tharp also allegedly saying, “We want to inform you that we have become aware of a rumor circulating on social media regarding a potential threat. Following a thorough investigation, we have found no credible evidence of any danger.”

The aim of the lawsuit is to clear W.G.’s record and prevent the school from taking further action against the student in regard to the Dr. Pepper cans photo. It also asks the court to declare the school district’s actions unconstitutional.

In a statement to Fox News Digital, Dave Roland, director of litigation and co-founder of the Freedom Center of Missouri, said that Goldwater Institute is “pursuing this case to turn the tide against a troubling national wave of schools overreaching their proper authority when it comes to policing and punishing off-campus student expression.”

Through Goldwater’s American Freedom Network of pro bono attorneys, Dave Roland, director of litigation and co-founder of the Freedom Center of Missouri, Marc Ellinger and Stephanie Bell, partners at the Missouri-based firm Ellinger Bell, are representing W.G.

“From students suspended for posting memes to punishments for fictional creative writing, schools are increasingly treating ordinary adolescent communication as grounds for disciplinary action,” Roland added. “The consequences extend far beyond individual cases – each unjust punishment sends a message to all students that their constitutional rights disappear the moment they log onto social media.”