Mia Cathell

Investigative Reporter at Washington Examiner

Investigative reporter @DCexaminer [email protected] | formerly @Townhallcom American News editor @TPostMillennial | BU '21 | Pronounced kuh-THELL

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Articles

The truth about a ban on ‘conversion therapy’ facing Supreme Court scrutiny

1 week ago | denvergazette.com | Mia Cathell

A frenzy of amicus briefs filed this month in a controversial case set to be heard by the Supreme Court is diversifying the debate around what constitutes "conversion therapy," especially as it applies to treating children with gender dysphoria. At issue in Chiles v.
USDA faces lawsuit over Biden-era DEI policies allegedly still in place

1 week ago | gazette.com | Mia Cathell

A high-profile constitutional law litigator has sued the U.S. Department of Agriculture over several Biden-era diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives allegedly still embedded in farmer financial assistance programs at the federal agency. The Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty (WILL), a conservative-leaning law firm, filed the lawsuit Monday on behalf of a white Wisconsin dairy farmer, Adam Faust, against U.S. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins.
LA spent years defunding police before anti-ICE riots

2 weeks ago | washingtonexaminer.com | Mia Cathell

Long before last weekend’s riots against immigration enforcement began, the Democratic-led city of Los Angeles spent years defunding its police department. Federal immigration authorities say LA’s shrunken police force is now struggling to help control the large-scale riots rocking the city. ICE acting Director Todd Lyons claimed LAPD took over two hours to respond to Friday night’s rioting despite multiple calls for help from federal authorities.
The state of BLM following infighting, funding fiasco

2 weeks ago | washingtonexaminer.com | Mia Cathell

Black Lives Matter‘s coffers have depleted significantly since the George Floyd protests of 2020, when activist organizers fundraised off a nationwide racial justice revolution with resounding success. A leadership vacuum and infighting over funds quickly threw BLM into a state of financial and organizational disarray, leaving some observers to wonder, five years later, where the money went and who’s in charge of its remnants.
Who is funding the anti-ICE activists in LA?

2 weeks ago | washingtonexaminer.com | Mia Cathell

The various Democratic-aligned groups helping to fuel the anti-Immigration and Customs Enforcement uprising in Los Angeles are well funded and part of a coordinated operation despite organizers’ efforts to make them appear spontaneous and grassroots.
Kendi-style antiracism centers did little despite large budgets

3 weeks ago | washingtonexaminer.com | Mia Cathell

Ibram X. Kendi’s Center for Antiracist Research is set to shutter at the end of June following a deluge of reporting on alleged financial mismanagement, poor leadership, and low research output. Similar academic centers hosted on college campuses across the United States share many of the same struggles that Kendi’s ill-fated venture at Boston University endured.
Virginia AG refers Loudoun County schools to DOJ after Title IX probe

3 weeks ago | washingtonexaminer.com | Mia Cathell

Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares has referred Loudoun County Public Schools to the U.S. Departments of Justice and Education following a state Title IX investigation into the school system’s alleged mishandling of a locker room incident involving a transgender student illicitly filming three sophomore boys.
Minority farmers disproportionately subsidized by Biden-era USDA loans

3 weeks ago | washingtonexaminer.com | Mia Cathell

According to a Washington Examiner analysis of U.S. Department of Agriculture data, minority farmers and ranchers across numerous states received an outsize share of Biden-era farm loans relative to the actual percentage of minority producers. This raises questions about whether diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts drove those loan disbursements.
Virginia AG refers Loudoun County schools locker room case to DOJ after Title IX investigation

3 weeks ago | denvergazette.com | Mia Cathell

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USDA accused of still discriminating against white farmers

3 weeks ago | washingtonexaminer.com | Mia Cathell

Diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) are still discriminating against white farmers despite a change in administration and the threat of litigation, a civil rights watchdog told the Washington Examiner, amid new whistleblower allegations accusing the agency of offering race-based loan relief under former President Joe Biden.