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Nickelodeon's Parent Hub Is A Nightmare Woke Indoctrination Syllabus For Kids

Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news,

The network that once sold slime and SpongeBob is running a parent portal that treats political activism as bedtime reading.

The children's channel has assembled a disturbing syllabus, and it wants the parents to administer it.

Libs of TikTok flagged nickparents, the network's own resource hub, on Monday.

WTF. @Nickelodeon, a major children's TV network, has a parent resource page that provides WOKE info guides for KIDS.

Topics include teaching children about "anti-racism", "countering islamophobia", promoting gender ideology, and MORE.

They want to indoctrinate your children. https://t.co/wcIGhik5Te

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) October 5, 2026

The tiles are not subtle. Countering racism and anti-Blackness. Countering islamophobia. Celebrate LGBTQ+ families, "proud every day of the year." A GLSEN guide to combating "LGBTQIA+ discrimination." Gun violence. The Capitol attack. Vocabulary on "equity and race."

Nickelodeon's parent site hosts the guides, under a banner that reads "PARENT RESOURCES" and the line "We may not have all the answers...but we know some folks who might."

The folks, it turns out, are far left activist partners.

One tile points parents to "Talk & Take Action: A Guide to Countering Racism and Anti-Blackness," produced with The Conscious Kid. "Dismantling anti-Blackness begins with education," the educator version says, further noting "Teachers we're calling on you!"

A companion page, "How Kids Can Be Allies," opens with "No one is ever too young to learn how to be an ally." The Conscious Kid, Nickelodeon writes, "developed a list of actions to guide kids on how to be an ally to BIPOC. Share these actions with your children and continue the fight against racism and bias."

The list tells children to "take on issues of racial injustice as your own," to understand "systemic racism," and to "commit to doing the work" as "a daily, lifelong practice."

It's absolute indoctrination designed to make kids believe anti-black racism is rampant and out of control.

The roundup goes further. It points families to Ground Control Parenting, including posts Nickelodeon itself describes as "Talking to Your Children About George Floyd and Tips on Bringing Your Child to a Protest."

Showing Up for Racial Justice is recommended for "how to support protesters." A Nick News special, Kids, Race and Unity, hosted by Alicia Keys, comes with a discussion guide that states "children start receiving explicit and implicit messages about race from birth and begin to show racial bias by age 3."

Believe it or not, toddlers are not racist because Alicia Keys says so.

That is not a cartoon network explaining why sharing is nice. It is a Cartoon Network handing parents a protest manual and a claim that toddlers are already racially biased.

Next to the race guide sits "Talk and Take Action: Parents', Caregivers' and Educators' Guide to Countering Islamophobia," again written with The Conscious Kid.

The guide says it is "designed to provide parents and caregivers with the tools, tips, and language needed to talk about Islamophobia" and "simple, but empowering, action steps families can take together."

One of those steps is blunt: "The single most powerful thing you can do to combat Islamophobia is to learn about the Islamic faith."

Good lord.

The same document steers families toward "small acts of activism" and names political figures in its discussion material. A children's network is instructing households on how to police speech about a religion, under a clinical label that treats scepticism as a pathology.

Parents who have watched Islamist terror, grooming-gang scandals, and campus intimidation do not need a slime brand to redefine their concerns as a phobia.

The LGBTQ tiles are just as direct. "Celebrate LGBTQ+ Families" promises parents can be "proud every day of the year." The GLSEN tile is an educators' guide to "combating LGBTQIA+ discrimination."

Nickelodeon's caregiver version says the network is "proud to present this parent resource," packed with "key terms, conversation starters, a reading list, and a reflection journal, provided by Nickelodeon's partners at GLSEN."

GLSEN is not a neutral literacy charity. It is an advocacy group whose business is school gender policy. Nickelodeon has put that group's vocabulary in front of the people raising the audience.

The same grid offers "Discussing Gun Violence with Kids" and "How to Talk About the Capitol Attack." That's one thing for the likes of CNN. A preschool-to-tween channel packaging race ideology, religious-speech rules, gender doctrine, guns and January 6 as a parental product is quite something else.

None of this arrived in a vacuum. We've previously highlighted how Nickelodeon put a drag performer in front of children for Pride.

The clip, first pushed years earlier and still circulating, features drag performer Nina West singing through the colours of the Pride flag. Fox News quoted the lyric: "Baby blue, pink and white represent transgender people because every letter in LGBTQ plus is equal. And Black and Brown represent the queer and trans people of color."

Nickelodeon's own YouTube description calls it an original song "about the meaning of the rainbow Pride flag" and tells viewers "June is Pride Month, so let's celebrate by lifting up voices in the LGBTQIA+ community!"

This is a real video by Nickelodeon aimed at toddlers and preschoolers: https://t.co/FH5VJzu4T9

— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) June 25, 2024

The same performer fronted a Blue's Clues Pride parade sing-along. Yahoo reported the lyric "Ace, bi and pan grown-ups you see can love each other so proudly," and quoted the team calling it "the queerest thing I've ever seen happen in the preschool space."

During the pandemic, in June 2020, as riots spread after the death of George Floyd, ViacomCBS cable channels, including Nickelodeon, went dark for 8 minutes and 46 seconds.

Newsweek reported the on-screen line: "Nickelodeon is going off the air for 8 minutes and 46 seconds in support of justice, equality and human rights." CNN reported that the spot flashed "I can't breathe" over the sound of gasping, and that chief executive Bob Bakish described the purpose as to "honor George Floyd and pay tribute to other victims of racial violence."

Parents filmed children asking for the channel to be turned off. The Independent reported Nickelodeon's reply to the complaints: "Unfortunately, some kids live in fear everyday. It is our job to use our platform to make sure that their voices are heard and their stories are told."

The network then aired a "Declaration of Kids' Rights," which Newsweek and CNN both quoted in part: "You have the right to be seen, heard and respected as a citizen of the world... You have the right to be treated with equality, regardless of the color of your skin... You have the right to an education that prepares you to run the world."

A kids' channel appointed itself the ministry of fear, then scolded parents for noticing their children were scared.

The programming has matched the pamphlets. In 2014, The Legend of Korra ended with its lead in a same-sex relationship, a first for a Western children's cartoon of that profile.

In June 2020, Nickelodeon's official account posted "Celebrating #Pride with the LGBTQ+ community and their allies this month and every month," with graphics of Korra, transgender actor Michael D. Cohen, and SpongeBob.

Creator Stephen Hillenburg had long described SpongeBob as asexual and had said he never intended to write sexuality into the series. The corporate account folded the character into the campaign anyway.

Parents are not confused about what this is. A channel that wants to sell them cartoons has spent years selling them a politics: race as original sin, dissent about Islamic extremism as a phobia, gender ideology as a family craft project, and the living room as an organising cell.

Anyone still sitting their kids in front of this is directly complicit in fostering the next generation of mentally deranged far left radicals.

Tyler Durden Tue, 10/06/2026 - 15:45

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Trump To Unveil Anduril Deal, Bringing Submarine Parts Factory To Baltimore

Bethlehem Steel's Sparrows Point complex near crime-ridden Baltimore City was once the largest steelmaking facility in the US and viewed by some as once the world's largest steel mill.

Decades of deindustrialization led to the mill's closure in 2012. By 2014, the 3,300-acre site entered a redevelopment phase and was transformed into a giant logistics and industrial complex under new ownership called Tradepoint Atlantic. 

Tradepoint Atlantic is set to enter a new chapter, with Anduril Industries having won a $2.9 billion US Navy contract to manufacture components for Virginia-class nuclear-powered attack submarines there.

According to The New York Times, Palmer Luckey's defense company plans to invest $3.7 billion in the project and directly create more than 3,000 jobs. The new shipyard is expected to open in 2030.

"We need to grow the maritime industrial base, the submarine industrial base, so that we can produce more submarines," Anduril Chief Strategy Officer Christian Brose was quoted as saying.

Left-wing Maryland Governor Wes Moore and other state Democrats are expected to attend the announcement following lengthy negotiations over the redevelopment plans. Maryland and Baltimore County are expected to provide hundreds of millions of dollars in tax subsidies.

The former Bethlehem Steel site has undergone a total transformation. It combines warehouses, distribution centers, industrial facilities, deepwater shipping terminals and rail connections to CSX and Norfolk Southern. Tenants include Amazon, FedEx, Under Armor, Home Depot, Volkswagen, BMW and others.

"President Trump knows a self-sustaining domestic shipbuilding sector is critical for national and economic security," said Anna Kelly, a White House spokeswoman.

Luckey commented on The Wall Street Journal's report on Monday, which said the site would manufacture drone boats, calling the reporting "false."

FYI, this "Exclusive" story is false. We told the reporter it was false, but they decided to trust their sources instead.

— Palmer Luckey (@PalmerLuckey) August 6, 2026

Brose said manufacturing drone boats or unmanned weapons of war was not part of the site's initial plans.

Hopefully, Tradepoint Atlantic brings stable, goods-producing jobs to the metro area, which has experienced decades of deindustrialization under Democratic control, leaving the crime-ridden city whose population has collapsed to a 100-year low. 

Tyler Durden Tue, 10/06/2026 - 15:20

Office CMBS Delinquency Rate Re-Spikes To 12.2%, Far Worse Than Financial Crisis Peak As End Of Extend-And-Pretend Looms

Authored by Wolf Richter via WolfStreet.com,

The dictum morphs from "Survive till '25" (when low interest rates were supposed to return) to "Sell at today's price, or the lender will."

The delinquency rate of office mortgages that have been securitized into commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS) re-spiked in recent months and in September hit 12.2%, the second highest ever, behind only January 2026 (12.3%), and 1.5 percentage point above the worst moments of the Financial Crisis, according to data by Trepp, which tracks and analyzes CMBS.

The biggest driver of the increase in September was a $1.1 billion maturity default on a loan that had matured in August, and was not paid off. That loan was securitized in 2021 and the different slices of CMBS were sold to institutional investors around the world at the time. The banks that originated the loan are off the hook.

The loan is backed by eight office and film-studio properties of 2.2 million square feet in Hollywood, whose largest tenants are Netflix and 20th Century Fox. But two of the Netflix leases and the 20th Century Fox lease, representing 30% of the net rentable area, are expiring soon, and renewals are still up in the air.

Extend and pretend forevermore?

The $1.1 billion Hollywood loan that went into maturity default in September had been transferred to special servicing in July 2026. The loan is backed by five Class A office towers built between 2008 and 2021 and three film-studio properties, totaling 2.2 million square feet, all located within a mile of each other in Hollywood. The borrowers are the mega-landlords Blackstone Property Partners and Hudson Pacific Properties.

The special servicer that is now managing the loan, representing the CMBS holders, is SitusAMC, the largest special servicer by unpaid principal balance ($111 billion as of January), according to SitusAMC.

Netflix is the largest tenant, leasing 57.8% of the net rentable area (NRA). One of its leases expires in January 2027 (7.0% of the NRA) and another lease expires in June 2028 (17.2% of the NRA), totaling 24.2%. Discussions with Netflix about lease renewals are ongoing, according to SitusAMC, cited by Fitch Ratings, which rates the CMBS.

20th Century Fox is the second largest tenant. Its lease, accounting for 6.4% of the NRA, expires in December 2026. The decision to renew the lease is awaiting confirmation on whether studio productions will be renewed for additional seasons, and the "outcome will determine if the leases will be extended," according to Fitch, citing the special servicer.

Here is the extend and pretend: The loan was recently modified, and the borrowers, Blackstone Property Partners and Hudson Pacific Properties, were granted a 14-month maturity extension through November 9, 2027, at the current (far below market) fixed interest rate of 4.435%, according to Fitch, citing the special servicer. To get the extension, Blackstone and Hudson Pacific agreed to fund a leasing reserve with $20 million from sources other than property cash flow. Fitch noted that the loan would remain subject to a "full cash trap" until full repayment, with all excess cash flow being directed to the leasing reserve.

Citing the risk that the Netflix and 20th Century Fox leases will not be renewed, Fitch changed its rating outlook to "negative," putting the CMBS in line for a downgrade "if market conditions, valuations, and/or actual portfolio performance deteriorate beyond Fitch's current expectations of sustainable performance, particularly if the borrower is unable to address upcoming lease rollover risk."

The properties were 84.9% occupied in July, down from 91% in September 2025. But the upcoming lease expirations of 30% of the NRA, if not rolled over, would leave nearly half of the space in the properties vacant.

A $470 million loan on office properties in downtown Houston was the second largest driver behind the increase in the default rate as it missed the maturity payoff earlier, according to Trepp.

The loan, originated and securitized into a single-borrower CMBS in 2021, is backed by the 34-story 1.0 million sq. ft. One Allen Center, completed in 1972; the 50-story 1.2 million sq. ft. Three Allen Center, completed in 1980; and an adjacent 6-story parking garage with a health club on top. Brookfield Properties is the landlord.

The interest-only loan comes with a floating rate of SOFR plus 3.08%. After the Fed's most recent rate hike, SOFR has been about 3.88%, which would move the current rate on the loan to 6.96%. Another rate hike by the Fed will move the loan's interest rate to about 7.2%. The loan was originated when SOFR was near 0%.

The property is 71% occupied. The largest tenants include Freeport LNG, Motiva, and Plains Marketing, according to Trepp.

S&P Global, which rates the CMBS, noted in March that it was concerned Brookfield Properties would not pay off the loan at the "final extended maturity date" in April. And that maturity date came and went without payoff.

Trepp said that the loan's move to non-performing status in September could reflect the ongoing loan negotiations.

The idea is to extend and pretend some more until interest rates come back down to 2% or whatever, which might allow for the loan to get refinanced.

Extend-and-Pretend Not Forevermore.

This extend and pretend, or the end thereof, was the theme in today's First Draft, a note that CRE publication Bisnow sent to subscribers. The note would be hilarious if it weren't so serious, or both:

"One of this industry's favored pastimes is the slogan, and for years it reprised one Rialto's Joe Bachkosky recalled onstage: 'Survive until '25.' But when 2025 failed to deliver, it turned into 'bliss in '26.' Lately, a few idealists have floated 'heaven in '27,' which sounds less like a prophecy every week and more like a prayer."

Mark Bonner, Bisnow's editor-in-chief and author of the note, continued:

"AEW's Lauren O'Neil called the moment 'a shift back to fundamentals,' which is industry speak for when the spreadsheet voodoo stops working.

"KBS' Sondra Wenger said today's distress 'is in the structure,' a murky way of saying the building is fine, but the price paid for it isn't.

"Poverni Sheikh Group's Eugene Poverni said the risk curve has 'slid one to the right,' meaning buyers want value-add returns for core-plus risk. Translate that once, and buyers want more for less, but translate it twice, and prices start to tumble.

"Meanwhile, refinancing is all but dead.

"That could mean an apartment building that runs smoothly day to day is in trouble anyway because someone paid a 3-cap for it in 2021. At the time, the price made sense. On Sept. 30 of that year, the 10-year closed at 1.52%, with the Fed's benchmark rate near zero. Five years later to the day, as many of those loans come due, the 10-year closed at 5.29%."

And Bonner concluded:

"But last week, the people holding the capital stopped pretending, and it seems like 'survive until 25' finally has a successor. It does not rhyme, and nobody will put it on a panel slide: Sell at today's price, or the lender will."

Tyler Durden Tue, 10/06/2026 - 15:00

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