Campus Radicals: Dems target military school, Chicago teachers wreak havoc, college nurse's viral scandal

This week successful Fox News Digital's Campus Radicals investigative series, a historical subject institute was thrust into an unexpected battle, portion Chicago teachers caused aggregate uproars and a caregiver astatine a teaching infirmary was fired aft she went viral for each the incorrect reasons. 

Virginia Democrats blasted for threatening historical subject assemblage VMI with backing menace implicit DEI concerns

Virginia Democrats successful the state’s House of Delegates introduced a solution connected Tuesday that would found a task unit to analyse the Virginia Military Institute and find if the historical subject assemblage should proceed to person funding. 

The determination is the latest of Virginia Democrats’ efforts to reinvigorate Diversity, Equity and Inclusion argumentation successful the authorities aft overmuch of the DEI mandates and policies were revoked aft President Donald Trump was elected successful 2024.

"This takes distant from VMI, takes distant from its mission," Rep. Rob Wittman, R-Va., told Fox News Digital. "I deliberation that it's harmful to the Commonwealth of Virginia, harmful to VMI arsenic an institution, harmful to each the unthinkable subject leaders and assemblage leaders that person travel retired of VMI."

"It's conscionable reprehensible that they would adjacent spell down this road," Wittman added. "But, it seems to beryllium what's happening successful Richmond."

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The Corps. of Cadets from the Virginia Military Institute (VMI) march during an inauguration ceremonial for Abigail Spanberger, politician of Virginia, not pictured, astatine Capitol Square successful Richmond, Virginia, US, connected Saturday, Jan. 17, 2026. (Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

VMI cadets propulsion backmost connected Virginia Democrats threatening subject institute

Cadets Michael Ferrara, regimental S3 captain, and Devin Auzenne, regimental commander, sat down for an exclusive interrogation with Fox News Digital to sermon the halfway values of VMI, and quality immoderate of the allegations that person pushed Virginia Democrats to endanger the institution. 

"I would accidental connected the cadet side, there's a small spot of confusion," Ferrara said. "One of the bills questions the publication that VMI contributes to the commonwealth of the authorities and this schoolhouse produces thing but prestigious men and women acceptable to service the country."

"We've had astir 300 generals and emblem officers coming from the Virginia Military Institute," Ferrara added. "We've had 7 Medal of Honor recipients, 11 Rhodes Scholars, 1 Nobel Prize winner."

Ferrara graduates from VMI this spring, and is commissioned to service successful the U.S. Air Force arsenic a developmental engineer. He told Fox helium attended VMI due to the fact that helium wanted to service the country. 

Chicago teacher placed connected permission aft Facebook station supporting ICE sparks outrage from activists

A Chicago country teacher is connected administrative permission and facing calls to suffer his occupation implicit a Facebook station past week offering enactment for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

"GO ICE," the teacher astatine West Chicago’s Gary Elementary School, posted connected Facebook past week. Shortly aft the station was made, activists successful the predominantly Hispanic assemblage rapidly began sharing the station and calling for enactment to beryllium taken against the teacher, who Fox News Digital is not naming owed to information concerns.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents proceed to behaviour migration enforcement operations successful Minneapolis, Minnesota, connected Thursday, Jan. 28, 2026.  (Madison Thorn/Anadolu via Getty Images)

"Imagine moving arsenic a teacher successful an simple schoolhouse successful West Chicago wherever the Latino assemblage is highly populated and promoting ICE, sick AF," 1 societal media station said. 

Another commenter called the teacher a "f****** portion of s***."

Chicago Teachers' Union sparks backlash with video harassing Target employees implicit ICE arsenic trial scores plummet

Members of the Chicago Teachers Union filmed themselves protesting national migration enforcement and anti-DEI measures astatine a section Target connected Friday, sparking disapproval some online and from experts who spoke to Fox News Digital. 

In a video posted connected Tuesday by the union, members tin beryllium seen entering a Chicago country Target holding anti-ICE signs, harassing employees and demanding answers astir whether Target volition "protect" its employees from ICE. 

A teacher takes portion successful the Chicago Teachers' Union onslaught rally successful downtown Chicago, the United States, connected Oct. 17, 2019. Thousands of teachers and supporters rally connected Thursday aft Chicago Teachers' Union failed to marque a woody with the municipal authorities connected raising the teachers' salaries. (Photo by Joel Lerner/Xinhua via Getty) (Xinhua/ via Getty Images) (Photo by Joel Lerner/Xinhua via Getty)

"As a backstage business, Target has a choice," the station said. "They tin usage their Fourth Amendment rights and station signs that request ICE amusement warrants to participate their building. Instead, they’ve allowed harm to their employees and customers, portion continuing to rotation backmost DEI commitments and bow to unit from the Trump administration."

VCU anti-ICE caregiver fired aft referencing paralytic cause successful video instructing 'sabotage' of ICE agents

A caregiver astatine Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) Health has been fired aft making a bid of videos suggesting ways to harm ICE agents. 

"Following an investigation, the idiosyncratic progressive successful the societal media videos is nary longer employed by VCU Health," the infirmary told Fox News Digital successful a Tuesday nighttime statement. "In addition, VCU Health has fulfilled its reporting requirements nether Virginia authorities law." 

On Tuesday morning, the infirmary said that it and the VCU Police were investigating the caregiver implicit the posts aft they went viral connected X. 

"We prioritize the wellness and information of anyone who comes to america for care. We are alert of a bid of videos that look to person been posted by an idiosyncratic confirmed to beryllium an worker of our wellness system," VCU told Fox News Digital successful a statement. "The contented of the videos is highly inappropriate and does not bespeak the integrity oregon values of our wellness system."

A Virginia Commonwealth University nurse's TikTok video from January 14, 2025, has gone viral aft it was posted by LibsOfTikTok connected X. (Credit: @mindarosa8/TikTok)

In 1 video, simply captioned with "#ice #resistance #sabotage," the caregiver instructed others to usage a "sabotage tactic" against opponents.

"I thought of thing good," she said.

"Sabotage tactic, oregon astatine slightest scare tactic. All the aesculapian providers, drawback immoderate syringes with needles connected the end," she said. "Have them afloat of saline oregon succinylcholine, you know, whatever. Whatever. That volition astir apt beryllium a deterrent. Be safe."

Succinylcholine is an anesthetic that causes rapid, short-acting musculus paralysis. The paralytic effect typically lasts for 4 to six minutes.

Medical watchdog unloads connected VCU aft caregiver fired for viral anti-ICE TikTok video suggested drugging agents

"As we’ve documented astatine Do No Harm, VCU has a agelong past of pushing utmost individuality authorities into aesculapian acquisition and objective treatment," Do No Harm's Executive Director Kristina Rasmussen told Fox News Digital. "Now, they enactment amazed erstwhile radicalism sprouts from a crushed seeded with toxic ideology."

The radical represents employees and students successful the aesculapian field, arsenic good arsenic patients and policymakers who are warring to support individuality authorities retired of aesculapian education, probe and objective practice. Do No Harm often pushes backmost against DEI initiatives and youth-focused sex ideology successful medicine.

"When aesculapian schools and hospitals let extremist authorities to signifier curriculum, they extremity up grooming harmful activists alternatively than skilled aesculapian professionals," Rasmussen continued. "VCU Health firing this caregiver is the bare minimum response. Unless they cleanable up their act, however volition immoderate diligent consciousness harmless walking done their doors?"

St. John's pupil authorities denies Turning Point section authoritative nine presumption for 2nd time

The pupil authorities astatine a Catholic schoolhouse successful Queens, New York denied their classmates the accidental to commencement a Turning Point USA section connected field past November. 

People rise placards speechmaking "This is our Turning Point" during a memorial work for slain blimpish commentator Charlie Kirk astatine State Farm Stadium, successful Glendale, Arizona, U.S., September 21, 2025.  (Brian Snyder/Reuters)

St. John's University's pupil leaders changeable down an exertion from TPUSA to beryllium officially recognized arsenic a club, pursuing a archetypal a schoolhouse spokesperson confirmed Wednesday morning. The archetypal clip was successful 2021. 

"At St. John’s University, the sole authorization to o.k. oregon contradict caller pupil organizations rests solely with Student Government, Inc. (SGI)," Brian Browne told Fox News Digital. "The four-round Power to Organize process aims to present oregon revitalize clubs/organizations to the St. John's Campus."

He said that during the autumn semester, lone 4 of 19 projected organizations were approved by the SGI.

"St. John’s students funny successful Turning Point USA are encouraged to reapply to SGI successful the Spring oregon prosecute different existing alternatives for department-sponsored organizational support," helium said. 

University of Minnesota pupil groups teaming with far-left radicals to pb anti-ICE 'national shutdown'

Several University of Minnesota pupil groups are starring what they are calling a "National Shutdown" successful protestation of national migration enforcement, and they are joined by far-left radicals from crossed the country.

On its Instagram page, the university's Black Student Union made a station directing others to a webpage called nationalshutdown.us, wherever they tin endorse the time of action. The protesters are refusing to spell to enactment and schoolhouse connected Friday, and are besides promising not to shop.

Federal agents woody with agitators extracurricular of the Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building successful Minneapolis, Minnesota, connected January 14, 2026. (Jamie Vera/Fox News)

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"The lone mode for america to get justness for Alex Pretti, Renee Good, and the countless radical murdered by ICE is for the unopen down to spell national," the Instagram station says. "NO WORK. NO SCHOOL. NO SHOPPING. VOTE NO TO ICE FUNDING."

The Black Student Union is astatine the apical of the database of endorsers of the time of action, alongside the school's Somali Student Association, Ethiopian Student Association and Liberian Student Association. The Graduate Labor Union astatine the University of Minnesota besides endorsed the event.