Private jets for me but not for thee: Bernie Sanders has spent the last several months crisscrossing the country railing against billionaires on a “Fighting Oligarchy” tour. Campaign expenditures released Tuesday and reviewed by the Free Beacon show he’s been like a rich man, too.
Sanders’s campaign, our Thomas Catenacci reports, “spent $221,723 chartering private jets during the first quarter of 2025, with the first payment coming just days before the launch of his tour in February.” The payments have gone to three firms that charter jets: Cirrus Aviation Services, N-Jet, and Ventura Jets. They account for nearly 75 percent of the campaign’s total transportation costs during that time.
“The revelation is the latest contrast between Sanders’s socialist rhetoric and his millionaire lifestyle,” writes Catenacci. “The Vermont senator used to rail against ‘millionaires and billionaires’ in his speeches denouncing oligarchy—until he became a millionaire himself shortly before his 2020 presidential campaign, at which point he trained his fire on ‘billionaires.'”
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The public broadcaster that cried racism: Roughly 15 percent of PBS’s $373 million operating budget comes from the federal government. The public broadcaster spends a portion of that money on its weekly documentary series, Independent Lens.
We watched several of the documentaries to spare you the agony. Maybe you missed Racist Trees, the 2022 documentary that chronicles a black neighborhood in the liberal oasis that is Palm Springs. There, a “wall of trees” lines a golf course located near a black neighborhood, and residents feel the trees were “intentionally planted to exclude and segregate” the neighborhood. Other titles include Our League, the story of a transgender woman who “comes out to her old-school Ohio bowling league”; Ferguson Rises, which shadows the father of Michael Brown; and Breaking the News, which documents the “women and LGBTQ+ journalists” who launched nonprofit newsroom The 19th to “buck a broken news media system.”
“It’s documentaries like those that have motivated the Trump administration to call to scrap taxpayer funds for PBS,” write the Free Beacon‘s Collin Anderson and Jessica Schwalb. “The White House plans to ask Congress to rescind $1.1 billion in federal funding for the entity that funds NPR and PBS, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. PBS has hired Ballard Partners, a lobbying firm with deep ties to the Trump administration, to push back.”
WATCH: From Trees to White Women, Everything Is Racist in These PBS Documentaries
Coming soon to an American outpost near you: Later this month, Georgetown University will vote on a school-wide referendum to boycott Israeli businesses and academic institutions. The referendum was initially scheduled to take place during the Jewish holiday of Passover, prompting criticism. Its leader, our Alana Goodman reports, is a student at the prestigious Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service (SFS), “one of the top institutions for students entering foreign policy roles in government and diplomatic corps.”
“The news comes as Georgetown faces criticism over a surge of anti-Semitism and terrorist support on campus,” writes Goodman. Much of that surge has come from SFS, which faced accusations of enabling“pervasive anti-Semitism” in the aftermath of Oct. 7 from a recent graduate, Henrik Schildt:
Outside the School of Foreign Service building, students arranged vigils—not for the murdered or kidnapped Jewish victims, but for Palestinian “martyrs.” The walls were covered in posters proclaiming “Glory to our Martyrs” and “Support Liberation.” Georgetown’s chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine, a radical group that has endorsed Hamas, held “Keffiyeh Thursdays” where students wore the checkered headdress that Palestinian terrorists use to conceal their faces.
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Away from the Beacon:
- One year ago, the Hamas-run Gaza Ministry of Health reported that 9,500 women were killed in the war-torn strip out of 33,000 total. Now, the same ministry says 8,300 women have been killed out of 50,800 total.
- The IRS is assembling a plan to rescind Harvard’s tax-exempt status, with a final decision “expected soon,” according to CNN.
- Speaking of Harvard: Fresh off his paid (and crotchety) speech at a disability rights conference, Joe Biden will privately address the university’s Institute of Politics on Wednesday “with his long-time adviser Mike Donilon,” according to the Harvard Crimson. Only select students were invited.
- In deep blue California, a plurality of voters are skeptical of legal immigration, more than half do not think the state should set its own strict vehicle emissions standards, and 43 percent say the state is “too confrontational” toward Trump compared with 33 percent who said it’s “too passive,” a new Politico poll found.
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