GOV/MIL Leftists Call For New "Secret Police" Force To Spy On Trump Supporters (AN ABSOLUTELY MUST-READ THREAD)

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Angela Rye: Black People 'Carry Trauma in Our Bodies' from Systemic Racism of American Policing

Political commentator Angela Rye said Sunday on ABC's "This Week" that the systemic racism of American policing has caused black people to "carry trauma in our bodies." | Clips

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Angela Rye: Black People ‘Carry Trauma in Our Bodies’ from Systemic Racism of American Policing

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Political commentator Angela Rye said Sunday on ABC’s “This Week” that the systemic racism of American policing has caused black people to “carry trauma in our bodies.”

Anchor George Stephanopoulos said, “Angela, it does seem like this issue I talked about with both Congresswoman Bass and Senator Scott. This issue of how much to shield police from lawsuits, what the standard should be for prosecution, that that is going to be what determines whether we get a compromise or not.”

Rye said, “It does. And I think what we have to look at is this verdict this week.

With Derek Chauvin, this wasn’t his first incident. It wasn’t even his fifth. We like to talk about bad apples a lot, but the issue is that the way the system of policing is currently set up. It doesn’t punish bad systems or bad apples. Derek Chauvin, before George Floyd’s nine minutes and 29 seconds, knelt on the back of a 14-year-old black boy for 17 minutes in 2017. In North Carolina, just this week, you have Andrew Brown, the father of seven children, Ma’Khia Bryant in Columbus, Ohio. You have Miles Jackson in Columbus, Ohio, who was shot in an emergency room. Andrew Hill dropping off Christmas presents, right? The Columbus Police Department isn’t about one bad apple. It’s about an entire department. So we have to talk about qualified immunity without fighting with buzzwords, but really talking about how we solve for a system that, by design from its inception, was designed to capture and return and enslave people back to their masters. If we can’t uproot what was intended, we will forever have this problem, and we have to be willing to have honest discourse.”

She continued, “Well, we’re talking about, for example, with the Columbus Police Department, 30 black people killed in the last five years. Systemic racism isn’t something that you get to cherry-pick and decide when you want to apply it. It means the system at its core is rotten. It means that it has to be re-imagined and revisited, as Karen Bass talked about earlier in the show, who also is a champion and a hero on this issue of having the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act passed the House twice.”

She added, “What is incumbent upon, I think especially people who are perpetrators of said system, is to understand that it’s not just my experience. It’s not just me being emotional. There is literally trauma that I carry in my body. I encourage you all to read a book called “My Grandmother’s Hands” by Resmaa Menakem, who talks about how we carry trauma in our bodies. White body supremacy, black body trauma, and police body trauma. It is not fair for us to allow for a police officer to shoot and kill because they have an irrational fear of a black person or a person of color. That’s something that has to be addressed at the systemic level.”

[COMMENT: Ours is a federal system. The "federal" government has specific, enumerated powers. Their federal law enforcement services are tied to that - expanded a bit by the Interstate Commerce Clause. Tey enforce federal law.

The general "police powers" rest with the states and local governments. The federal government cannot compel local or state law enforcement to enforce federal law. Your local LE are largely paid for by property taxes. The federal government may offer conditional grants requiring the hiring of dedicated staff etc., but local/state government may choose not to apply at their own discretion.

My experience with grants, such as "cops on the street," is that the grant may fully fund a position for the first year, then gradually taper off. Local government, however, must agree to continue to fund the position. Because of this, it was always our Board policy on accepting grant conditions was: "when the money goes away, the position goes away." The feds also have a nasty habit of putting gotcha clauses in grants and then auditing to claw money back.

I don't see how Congress or the President through an EO has the power or authority to dictate changes in local LE to address the so-called "systemic" nature of racism in LE. ]

 

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Oscar Nominee Andra Day: School Textbooks 'Are Designed to Continue White Supremacy'

Oscar-nominated star Andra Day has claimed the textbooks used in American schools are designed to perpetuate "white supremacy," alleging they deliberately downplay or hide the accomplishments of black historical figures, including singer Billie Holiday, whom she plays in the Hulu movie The...

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Oscar-nominated star Andra Day has claimed the textbooks used in American schools are designed to perpetuate “white supremacy,” alleging they deliberately downplay or hide the accomplishments of black historical figures, including singer Billie Holiday, whom she plays in the Hulu movie The United States vs. Billie Holiday.

The pop star, who is a best actress nominee for her role in the movie, also praised Stacey Abrams (D) in a wide-ranging interview with left-wing cultural critic Roxane Gay for The Hollywood Reporter.

During the conversation, Andra Day attacked school textbooks, claiming they frequently omit historical accounts of black people, like the controversy surrounding Billie Holiday’s song “Strange Fruit,” which was a protest song against racist lynchings.

“We didn’t know because textbooks are designed to continue white supremacy, right? In schools and colleges. I didn’t know about [the women of] Hidden Figures because we weren’t supposed to know,” she said.

“Billie Holiday was a threat to a system of racial inequality. So we were only supposed to know her as a tragic addict who wasted her life on drugs, which could not be further from the truth.”

In the interview, Day makes the unverified claim that the largest publisher of textbooks is located in Texas. “So think about that agenda there alone,” she said, in an apparent attempt to conflate the state’s Republican base with white supremacy.

It remains unclear which publisher Day was referring to since none of the five largest educational publishers is headquartered in Texas. The Lone Star state is the largest market for academic textbooks, which gives the state’s board of education significant influence over publishers.

Andra Day also praised Stacey Abrams in the interview by comparing her to singer Billie Holiday.

“That is the same DNA. That is why they had to shut her up. You know what I mean? Because she is the DNA that is in Stacey Abrams,” Day said.

She added that new, GOP-led voter integrity laws “are a direct response to Stacey Abrams registering millions of voters. She just did the right thing.”

Andra Day has already won a Golden Globe for her performance in the movie, which has received mixed to negative reviews. In her recording career, she received two Grammy nominations for her 2015 debut solo album Cheers to the Fall.

 

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It looks like I'm late.

As of today, 1740 hrs, there are 25 pages of posts to read and what looks like a bushel and a half of new acronyms to absorb.

Guess I better get started because, if they're coming for right wing leaning Libertarians, I'm on the list .......

Just think of it as the "Lifestyle" section of a big Sunday edition of the newspaper and scan and select headlines that interest you.

 

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The big Pentagon internet mystery now partially solved

On January 20, minutes before Trump left office, the Pentagon transferred control of 4% of the internet to Global Resource Systems LLC, which lists its address above a bank in Florida.

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'It's the biggest thing in the history of the internet': Pentagon quietly transfers 175 million internet addresses worth $4BILLION to mysterious firm at shared workspace in Florida

• Transfer of idle DoD IP addresses took place minutes before Trump left office
• Huge swathe of 175 million addresses accounts for 4% of the entire internet
• They are now under the control of mysterious Global Resource Systems LLC
• Company's address is listed in a co-working space above a bank in Florida
• Reporter who visited the address found no representative and was told to leave
• Now Pentagon says it is running a 'pilot' to 'identify potential vulnerabilities'

By ASSOCIATED PRESS

PUBLISHED: 16:20 EDT, 24 April 2021 | UPDATED: 07:39 EDT, 25 April 2021
The big Pentagon internet mystery now partially solved
A very strange thing happened on the internet the day President Joe Biden was sworn in.

A shadowy company residing at a shared workspace above a Florida bank announced to the world´s computer networks that it was now managing a colossal, previously idle chunk of the internet owned by the U.S. Department of Defense.

That real estate has since more than quadrupled to 175 million addresses - about 4 percent the size of the entire current internet. It's also more than twice the size of the internet space actually used by the Pentagon.

'It is massive. That is the biggest thing in the history of the internet,' said Doug Madory, director of internet analysis at Kentik, a network operating company.

The sell off of Internet space sparked theories the Pentagon could be eventually responding to repeated demands to monitise its collections of millions of dormant web pages.

But it now seems officials hope to place the pages on the open market in order to allow them to gather huge amounts of intelligence data about Internet users, including hostile actors.

The military hopes to 'assess, evaluate and prevent unauthorized use of DoD IP address space,' said a statement issued Friday by Brett Goldstein, chief of the Pentagon's Defense Digital Service, which is running the project.

But it has not answered many basic questions, beginning with why it chose to entrust management of the address space to a company that seems not to have existed until September.

On January 20, the Pentagon transferred control of a huge swathe of unused IP addresses -- accounting for 4% of the entire internet -- to a mysterious firm in Florida

Global Resource Systems LLC lists its address in a coworking space above this bank in Plantation, Florida. A receptionist there had not heard of the firm

It also hopes to 'identify potential vulnerabilities' as part of efforts to defend against cyber-intrusions by global adversaries, who are consistently infiltrating U.S. networks, sometimes operating from unused internet address blocks.

The statement did not specify whether the 'pilot project' would involve outside contractors.

The Pentagon periodically contends with unauthorized squatting on its space, in part because there has been a shortage of first-generation internet addresses since 2011; they now sell at auction for upwards of $25 each.

Madory said advertising the address space will make it easier to chase off squatters and allow the U.S. military to 'collect a massive amount of background internet traffic for threat intelligence.'

Some cybersecurity experts have speculated that the Pentagon may be using the newly advertised space to create 'honeypots,' machines set up with vulnerabilities to draw hackers.

Or it could be looking to set up dedicated infrastructure - software and servers - to scour traffic for suspect activity.

'This greatly increases the space they could monitor,' said Madory, who published a blog post on the matter Saturday.

What a Pentagon spokesman could not explain Saturday is why the Defense Department chose Global Resource Systems LLC, a company with no record of government contracts, to manage the address space.

An Airman is seen checking military network equipment in a file photo. The Pentagon created the internet, and still owns a huge chunk of Internet Protocol addresses

'As to why the DoD would have done that I´m a little mystified, same as you,' said Paul Vixie, an internet pioneer credited with designing its naming system and the CEO of Farsight Security.

The company did not return phone calls or emails from reporters. It has no web presence, though it has the domain grscorp.com.

Its name doesn't appear on the directory of its Plantation, Florida, domicile, and a receptionist drew a blank when an AP reporter asked for a company representative at the office earlier this month.

She found its name on a tenant list and suggested trying email. Records show the company has not obtained a business license in Plantation.

Incorporated in Delaware and registered by a Beverly Hills lawyer, Global Resource Systems LLC now manages more internet space than China Telecom, AT&T or Comcast.

The only name associated with it on the Florida business registry coincides with that of a man listed as recently as 2018 in Nevada corporate records as a managing member of a cybersecurity/internet surveillance equipment company called Packet Forensics.

The company had nearly $40 million in publicly disclosed federal contracts over the past decade, with the FBI and the Pentagon's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency among its customers.

That man, Raymond Saulino, is also listed as a principal in a company called Tidewater Laskin Associates, which was incorporated in 2018 and obtained an FCC license in April 2020.

It shares the same Virginia Beach, Virginia, address - a UPS store - in corporate records as Packet Forensics. The two have different mailbox numbers.

Calls to the number listed on the Tidewater Laskin FCC filing are answered by an automated service that offers four different options but doesn´t connect callers with a single one, recycling all calls to the initial voice recording.

An Air Force sergeant checks the status of his servers in Iraq in a file photo. Network professionals have been buzzing about the mysterious IP transfer
Saulino did not return phone calls seeking comment, and a longtime colleague at Packet Forensics, Rodney Joffe, said he believed Saulino was retired.

Joffe, a cybersecurity luminary, declined further comment. Joffe is chief technical officer at Neustar Inc., which provides internet intelligence and services for major industries, including telecommunications and defense.

In 2011, Packet Forensics and Saulino, its spokesman, were featured in a Wired story because the company was selling an appliance to government agencies and law enforcement that let them spy on people's web browsing using forged security certificates.

The company continues to sell 'lawful intercept' equipment, according to its website.

One of its current contracts with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is for 'harnessing autonomy for countering cyber-adversary systems.'

A contract description says it is investigating 'technologies for conducting safe, nondisruptive, and effective active defense operations in cyberspace.'

Contract language from 2019 says the program would 'investigate the feasibility of creating safe and reliable autonomous software agencies that can effectively counter malicious botnet implants and similar large-scale malware.'

Deepening the mystery is Global Resource Systems' name. It is identical to that of a firm that independent internet fraud researcher Ron Guilmette says was sending out email spam using the very same internet routing identifier.

It shut down more than a decade ago. All that differs is the type of company. This one´s a limited liability corporation. The other was a corporation. Both used the same street address in Plantation, a suburb of Fort Lauderdale.

'It´s deeply suspicious,' said Guilmette, who unsuccessfully sued the previous incarnation of Global Resource Systems in 2006 for unfair business practices.
Guilmette considers such masquerading, known as slip-streaming, a ham-handed tactic in this situation. 'If they wanted to be more serious about hiding this they could have not used Ray Saulino and this suspicious name.'

Guilmette and Madory were alerted to the mystery when network operators began inquiring about it on an email list in mid-March. But almost everyone involved didn´t want to talk about it.

Mike Leber, who owns Hurricane Electric, the internet backbone company handing the address blocks´ traffic, didn´t return emails or phone messages.
Despite an internet address crunch, the Pentagon - which created the internet - has shown no interest in selling any of its address space, and a Defense Department spokesman, Russell Goemaere, told the AP on Saturday that none of the newly announced space has been sold.

 

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Parents outraged over Nickelodeon segment that teaches kids about 'environmental racism:' 'Nothing is sacred'

Nickelodeon marked Earth Day this year with a segment dedicated to teaching its young audience about "environmental racism" and the impact it has on climate change.

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Parents outraged over Nickelodeon segment that teaches kids about 'environmental racism:' 'Nothing is sacred'

Critics accused the program of trying to indoctrinate its younger audience with 'propaganda'

By Yael Halon | Fox News

Nickelodeon marked Earth Day this year with a segment dedicated to teaching its young audience about "environmental racism" and the impact it has on climate change.

CBS News correspondent and host of the special Jamie Yuccas began by questioning why some U.S. cities are subjected to dangerous living conditions more than others.

"What do these cities have in common?" Yuccas asked. "They’re all examples of environmental racism, a form of systemic racism where minority and low-income communities are surrounded by health hazards because they live near sewage, mines, landfills, power stations, [and] major roads."

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The special caused quite a stir on social media, with critics accusing the program of trying to indoctrinate its younger audience with "propaganda."

"Remember the good ole’ days when the network just aired salute your shorts, hey dude, rugrats, the adventures of Pete and Pete, Rockos modern life ... AND didn’t peddle this left-wing drivel. Sad - truly sad," Townhall.com senior editor Matt Vespa wrote on Twitter.

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The controversial segment was posted on Nickelodeon's official Twitter account, but the reply feature was disabled by the network for fear of backlash, critics observed.

"You're cowards,@Nickelodeon," Daily Wire reporter Ryan Saavedra said, alongside the tweet.


"If you have kids that still watch Nickelodeon, turn it off. They run the racial and lefty bs all the time. Aimed right at your kids," another user wrote.

Daily Caller Communications Director Logan Hall questioned "honestly, what’s the market for this? it’s a children’s cartoon show," he wrote. "Nothing is sacred."
"I remember when Nickelodeon didn't indoctrinate our kids," a user added.

"Learn the meaning of State propaganda and social control," wrote another.
The incident marks the second time in less than a year that critics charged the program with crossing the line.

In June, Nickelodeon suspended its programming to air a message that simply read "I CAN'T BREATHE" for eight minutes and 46 seconds, accompanied by the sound of a person breathing.

The message was a reference to George Floyd, who died while in police custody after former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin kneeled on Floyd's neck for eight minutes. Chauvin was found guilty of murder last week by a Minneapolis jury and now awaits sentencing.

Yael Halon is a reporter for Fox News.

[COMMENT: The left never takes a good look at the "environmental racism" caused by their draconian environmental regulations. Love their Prius, but never consider that mining for the battery is exported to countries with little to no regulation, as well as child or slave labor.]

 

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Marxism Is Defeating America But We Refuse To Notice (Clare Lopez) [Video]

By: Citizens Commission on National Security Barry Nussbaum: Hello and welcome to ATP Report. I’m Barry Nussbaum. We are honored and so happy to have back with us, National security exper…

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Barry Nussbaum: Hello and welcome to ATP Report. I’m Barry Nussbaum. We are honored and so happy to have back with us, National security expert Clare Lopez. Clare is the founder of Lopez Liberty, LLC. She’s got a background in American foreign service. She’s a national security expert. She’s a former CIA big shot, and we’re thrilled to have her back. Hello, Clare.

Clare Lopez: Hey, Barry. Thank you very much. I’m glad to be back with you anytime.

Barry Nussbaum: I want to tell our audience that I am astounded by the theory and evidence to back your theory that you have sent to me. I consider the show we are about to do, and we’re going to do a follow-up after, one of the most important things you and I have ever discussed. In maybe out of the thousand-plus shows ATP has done, this is in the top one or two percent.

You have come up with an understanding of what’s happening in America that was predicted a generation ago by some really, really bad people, and everything that was written and predicted has come true. Tell us, in brief, what the heck I’m so upset about?

Clare Lopez: Well, Barry, what we’re talking about was written in a book called The Naked Communist. The Naked Communist is a book that was written in 1958 by a former FBI agent named W. Cleon Skousen. From his, at that point in time, decades of experience with the FBI and up against communism.

As well, his understanding of the testimony that I think he either heard, read about, or took notes about in the congressional hearings of earlier in the 1950s by Communist and former Communist who came to testify as witnesses in front of the House on un-American Activities Committee and also in the Senate, Senator Joseph McCarthy’s committee.

He put together the book because he wanted to sort of consolidate in one place for Americans to have easy access to read and understand what he had come to understand about the communist threat that was infiltrating the US government and every sector of American society.

Barry Nussbaum: Let’s talk about a couple of those predictions. We’ve taken a few out today for the education of our audience. These come from Chapter 13, the forty-five goals of communism today. I’m going to pull out a couple of them and ask you to explain.

Number seven of the forty-five goals, says, ”Grant recognition of communist China and get communist China into the United Nations.” Why was this so important, and has the goal been achieved in the way they predicted it would be in the 1950s?

Clare Lopez: Yeah, I think this was very important. The legitimization of this communist regime. Of course, Mao Tse tung conquered Beijing, conquered China in 1949, and established the Communist Party of China. Well, at least as a dictator, as a ruler.

But that was just the beginning. Getting the red Chinese, the Communist Party of China, into the United Nations, because we’ll recall, too, that after that, some decades after that in 1972, President Richard Nixon, his secretary of state, Henry Kissinger, then made the opening to China and eventually normalized relations with it.

Eventually, China was welcomed into the World Trade Organization, a hugely important move that provided all kinds of economic benefits to them, which the Communist Party of China took full advantage of, as we can see to this day.

Barry Nussbaum: Well, let’s add to that. They are not like us either culturally or, more importantly, politically. They don’t have elections, they don’t have freedoms, everything is dictated from the top down in a traditional communist dictatorship, and their goal is world domination.

We facilitated that in 1972, and now every day, Biden is now echoing Trump by saying, “Whoa, these guys are out to get us, and they are getting us.” Wouldn’t you agree?

Clare Lopez: Absolutely, I would agree. The thing is that the Chinese leadership has always told us that they want to dominate the entire world and replace the United States as the world power. Nothing has been hidden from us.

But the naive assumption was that if the Chinese could be brought into world organizations like the UN, the WTO and with economic success and better material advancement for the people, that somehow the regime, the communist regime itself would also modify and liberalize and become more democratic.

Of course, that’s a fallacy. It hasn’t come true. It’s never going to come true. The Communist Chinese Party exists to dominate and subjugate not just their own people but the rest of the world.

Barry Nussbaum: Well said. They’re winning. We’re losing, and we ain’t doing nothing about it yet. Let’s go to number 15. This one scares the hell out of me. “Capture one or both of the political parties in the United States.”

I think we can all agree, the Democrat Socialists of America today are the well, the leaders of the Democrat Party. They’re the ones that most closely resemble, well, the writings of Karl Marx, among others. These people are not just socialists.

They may be on the road to full-blown communism. Talk to me about that.

Clare Lopez: Yeah, that’s absolutely true. Barry. So, you know, back in the first part of this transformation of American political life, you could say Moscow, the KGB, the Kremlin were still dominant in terms of global communism and Marxism.

That’s the ideology certainly of Marx and Lenin that dominated the scene politically and otherwise. But I would say that today’s world communism is really dominated by Beijing and the Chinese Communist Party. But nevertheless, its roots are in Marxism, Leninism, the Communist Manifesto, and we’re looking, yes, at the Democrat Socialists of America, which dominates the Democrat Party in the United States.

Here’s the thing, if any of us would go back to last year, 2020, and look at the Unity Task Force recommendations, the official name of what’s come to be called the Bernie / Biden manifesto. This 110-page document that laid out the premises, the positions, the topics that the Democrat Party focuses on.

Lay that side by side then with the Democrat party platform of 2020, a little bit shorter document, and then have a look back at the Communist Manifesto of 1848 written by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels.

There’s not a hair’s breadth of difference among these, and the things that I’m talking about are things like the abolition of private property, progressive taxation, confiscatory taxation for the purpose of redistribution of wealth, centralization of the means of communication. These are all in the Communist Manifesto, and they’re all in the Democrat party platform.

Barry Nussbaum: I thought you were going to say Clare, and that’s today’s news. Let’s go find the source. You gave me the source, and as you were saying it, I couldn’t find any difference with the news of today. It’s exactly what was predicted.

Clare Lopez: Yeah, exactly, and remember, we’re running down these points that were captured in this Chapter 13 of The Naked Communist in a book published in 1958.

Barry Nussbaum: Let’s go to number 17. Oh, my gosh. Clare Lopez. This is spot on. Number 17, “Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of the teachers’ association. Put the party line in textbooks.” Oh my, is this happening.

Clare Lopez: Isn’t it, though. Really, honestly, out of the entire list of forty-five goals I think perhaps this one, number 17, may be the most important of all, because of what has happened. The Communist very deliberately and methodically took aim at our academic system in America way back shortly after the Communist revolution in Russia in 1917.

They used vehicles like the Frankfurt school to do that. Herbert Mark Coosa, “other leading educators,” that’s air quotes there who systematically did just what, 17 here says. To insert communist propaganda, Marxist indoctrination into the curriculum, the textbooks, and now we see it.

It’s not just all through America’s public schools, K through 12, and universities, but private schools too. Charter schools too. Not all of them, but too many of them. We see in curricula that our foundational principles that undergird this country, Judeo-Christian principles found in our foundational documents written by our founding fathers, individual liberty, the equality of everyone before the rule of law, government by consent of the governed.

All of these things are not taught, never mind the actual factual, accurate history of the American founding by pioneers and settlers and the founding fathers.

Instead, we have The New York Times 1619 project that premises that the United States is built on nothing, but racism and slavery and that systemic racism persists to this day throughout our society.

You’ve got the critical race theory kinds of curriculum elements pervading public education, ethnic studies. All of these things are now pervasive throughout America’s educational system. Even though President Trump set up the 1776 Commission last year and they produced a beautiful report called the 1776 Commission Final Report, which came out this year, January 2021.

As an outline, I think a beautiful outline for restoring accurate civics and history education in our schools. It has not gotten the traction it needs, and instead, all of this other twisted portrayal of America and American history is dominant right now. They’ve succeeded. The number 17, put a checkmark next to that one.

Barry Nussbaum: Boy, that’s the truth. Thanks for coming on, Clare tell people where they can find out about you.

Clare Lopez: Well, I have a number of places where I publish videos and written pieces. Newsmax.com for one Citizen’s Commission on National Security, the United West, of course, Brandyn Houses World View Weekend, and of course at the American Truth Project. On Social Media, you can find me at Clare M Lopez on Twitter, and by Parley, I’m on Telegram and on Facebook.

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Barry Nussbaum: Thanks so much for coming on. We sure appreciate it. For all of you out there in ATP land that hasn’t yet, please subscribe to our text message system. You’ll get all of our shows and publications like Clare Lopez on your cell phone, absolutely free.

All you have to do is text the message TRUTH to 88202. You’ll be signed up. It’s always free, and you’ll see all of our content every day just by looking down into the palm of your hand. For Clare Lopez and Barry Nussbaum, thanks for joining us on ATP Report.

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US citizens have a new weapon in their fight for freedom

STORY AT-A-GLANCE There are 10 steps that every tyrannical government has followed. We are now at step 10. Once the

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STORY AT-A-GLANCE

• There are 10 steps that every tyrannical government has followed. We are now at step 10. Once the 10th step locks into place, there will be no going back
• The 10 steps toward tyranny start with the invocation of a terrifying internal and/or external threat. From 2001 onward, that threat was terrorism, which was used as the justification for stripping us of our liberties
• With the declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic, we entered step 10, where emergency powers and laws are used to strip remaining freedoms from the people, censorship is enacted and certain kinds of speech is criminalized
• We must get involved and fight to enact state legislation that protects against continued erosion of freedom and reestablishes rights and liberties
• The Daily Clout platform was created for this purpose. It allows citizens to lobby already drafted, turnkey bills to their legislators

Naomi Wolf, a former adviser to the Clinton administration, is a prolific author and Yale University graduate. She also received a prestigious Rhodes Scholarship that allowed her to complete her Ph.D. in English and literature at Oxford University in 2015. Eight years before that, she wrote a book called “The End of America,” which is the topic of this interview.

“The End of America” was published in 2007. At the end of this article, you will find a playlist of three videos in which she reads select chapters of the book. You can also download the first and last chapters for free on the publisher’s website, chelseagreen.com.1

A Prescient Warning
Already in 2007, Wolf warned us of where we were headed. In her book, she points out that would-be tyrants are found on both sides of the political spectrum. We must not get locked into generalizations about political affiliations, because they simply do not give us a truthful picture of who the enemy is.

While Wolf and I could be said to be on opposite sides of the political spectrum, Wolf being a long-time progressive while many would view me as a conservative, our views are in perfect alignment when it comes to the issues of protecting American freedom and liberty.

In “The End of America,” Wolf lays out the 10 steps toward tyranny. These steps have been followed by virtually all would-be tyrants, be they on the political left or right. They were followed in Italy in the ’20s, Germany in ’30s, East Germany in the ’50s, Chile in the ’70s and China in the ’80s.

“They all took the same 10 steps, and they always work,” Wolf says. “I warned people that when you start to see these 10 steps, you have to take action, because there is no way to recover once things go too far without a bloody revolution or a civil war.

We are [now] at Step 10. People have said, since I wrote that book in 2007, ‘Tell us when we’re at Step 10.’ I’ve always said, ‘Things are bad, they’re getting worse, but there’s still hope.’ We’re literally at Step 10 now. I’ve been trying to warn people, tirelessly, as much as I can, that we are at Step 10 and that once Step 10 locks in, there is no going back.”

We’re in the Final Step of the Implementation of Tyranny
The 10 steps toward tyranny start with the invocation of a terrifying internal and/or external threat. It may be a real threat or an imagined one, but in all cases, it’s a hyped-up threat. From 2001 onward, that threat was terrorism, which was used as the justification for stripping us of our liberties. Ultimately, that wasn’t effective enough.

“There was still freedom in the world. People were not saying, ‘ISIS exists; therefore, I’m going to give up my First Amendment liberties, my Fourth Amendment liberties, my Second Amendment liberties and so on.’ Sadly, this medical crisis — which is now not a pandemic in many states and countries, it’s an endemic; it doesn’t meet the formal definition of a pandemic — was the perfect excuse for leaders to usher in Step 10,” Wolf says.

The last and final step in the implementation of tyranny, Step 10, involves the creation of a surveillance state where citizens are spied upon, and critique of the government is reclassified as dissent and subversive activity.

Step 10
The surveillance state is now being rolled out in the form of vaccine passports, while certain kinds of speech are said to be dangerous and freedom of speech is being criminalized. Needless to say, the mainstream press is an important part of this scheme.

“The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation have essentially bought up the western press and coerce them, bribe them, into following the party line, brought up by the CDC and so on,” Wolf says.

“Toward the end of the steps, which is Step 10, is emergency law, [which is a] subversion of the rule of law, also called martial law. We’re here. I’m [in] New York State. We’re under emergency law.

Every 30 days, I get an email saying that tyrannical Governor Cuomo has extended emergency powers, even though in Columbia County where I live, there are only eight deaths a month with COVID, average age 85, which is older than the average American life span.

It’s not a pandemic where I live, but I’m living under emergency law, which means the legislature has no power. The governor can do whatever he wants. It’s the same in Massachusetts, same in California — 49 states, all states except Alaska, are technically under emergency law.

This is terrifying. You get what you’re seeing, which is governors deciding, or the federal government deciding, that you can’t assemble, you can’t worship, you have no medical choice, the coercion of vaccine passports, your child can’t go to school, your young adult can’t get a college education if they don’t agree to an experimental vaccination.

You get suspension of the right to property. You can’t run your business — 110,000 restaurants have closed. You get a suspension of freedoms of speech. People are being deplatformed left and right and there are movements in Congress to criminalize what had been First Amendment protected speech.

You get the invocation of martial powers and there’s no end to it. Literally, with Massachusetts emergency law, I have no rights. I have no ability to lobby the governor. With New York’s emergency law, I have no representative with the power to end emergency measures. The governor has to end emergency measures, [and] he’s the one who benefits from them. It’s catastrophic.

We’re seeing a complete takeover of American rights, freedoms and bodies by Big Tech, which is up double digits to triple-digit billions since the pandemic began.

China has moved in to … establish its role as the global superpower under the guise of this pandemic, buying up community groups, elected officials and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which are flooding K through 12 education … community groups [and] universities with money to engage in COVID education — which means a strict party line [narrative] that is aimed at destroying what’s human about us and what’s free. That’s it in a nutshell. It’s unbelievably terrifying.”

What the COVID-19 Passports Are Really About

View: https://youtu.be/hn2pbIdlaDk
5:20 min

Wolf was recently interviewed by Fox News’ Steve Hilton (above), in which she warned that mandatory COVID-19 passports will spell the “end of human liberty in the West”:2,3 In essence, they’re a precursor to the social credit system that has already been implemented in China.

The vaccine passes have already been rolled out in New York, where Wolf lives. Surveillance is nothing new, of course. We’ve been digitally surveilled for years, through social media platforms, Google and all manner of “smart” technology.

Since the early 2000s, Google and Facebook in particular have been data mining online users. These data, then, have been applied to deep learning computers, giving them unprecedented ability to predict the type of messaging triggers that will create the maximum amount of fear — and thus compliance.

There’s also every reason to assume that this information has also been shared with people like Bill Gates, who largely controls the World Health Organization. If it wasn’t for the WHO, we would not be in this situation, because it was the central organization with the authority to declare a global pandemic, and keep it in place long past its natural expiration date.

They actually changed the definition of “pandemic,” removing the requirement of mass casualties, and if it wasn’t for that, COVID-19 simply would not qualify as a pandemic.

The Pandemic Is Hypothetical at Best
Wolf points out that COVID-19 dashboards, such as Johns Hopkins’ COVID-19 tracking project that mainstream media keep citing, cannot tell us anything about who’s actually getting infected, or who’s dying. We don’t even know if they are showing real or made up data.

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Wolf, being the CEO of a tech company, builds digital dashboards based on government data, so she knows what she’s talking about. You have to have the raw datasets. Since none of the dashboards provide the raw data, nothing can be verified. “Basically, they can dial up cases, which are positive PCR tests, or dial them down,” she says. So, the entire pandemic narrative is unverified.

We do know, however, that the CDC has shifted influenza and pneumonia deaths to COVID-19 deaths, and tens of thousands of Americans die from these conditions every year. When lawmakers in Minnesota audited death records, for example, they found a 40% over-attribution of deaths to COVID-19.

Then there’s the PCR test scandal. Not only have laboratories everywhere been using excessively high amplification cycles resulting in staggeringly high false positive rates, but they also do not account for duplicate tests. If you get a positive test, and test once a week until you test negative, each positive test result you obtain is counted as a separate “case.”

“We literally can’t know if there’s been a pandemic, there’s so much faulty attribution, inflation of numbers, and so on,” Wolf says. “Those numbers, I can’t stress enough, have never been audited …

We have to do a freedom of information request in Britain to take a look at the raw data sets that are being fed into the Office for National Statistics, COVID dashboard. We looked at where the data were flowing from for the Johns Hopkins dashboard, which again, was used by every major university, every major news outlet. One of the data providers was a hedge fund! …

I know something else about APIs. It is virtually impossible to, in real time, get hundreds of thousands of reports from hundreds of thousands of doctors, hospitals, CVS and Rite Aid, feeding into a live digital dashboard. I keep asking the developers to show me, ‘How did you do this? It’s virtually impossible.’ There’s no answer, there’s crickets.

Literally, we don’t know if the dashboards are just dialing up and dialing down infection rates. Everyone’s taking for granted that these must be real numbers, but there’s no evidence that they are real numbers. I’m willing to stand corrected if there’s a FOIA and we see the raw data sets. But right now, it is a hypothetical pandemic.”

Collusion by Tech Companies
Tech companies have also engaged in what Wolf likens to criminal collusion. She explains:

“In March of last year, for the COVID-19 response project, Zoom, NASDAQ, Nintendo, Microsoft, Amazon — all the people who benefited from the lockdown — coordinated so that wherever you go on the internet, across platform to platform, you see these alerts about COVID-19, warnings about COVID, instructions about COVID, and of course, censorship … if you run afoul of the narrative about COVID.

I run a tech company. The question, when you run a tech company, is how do you get people to not do things in the real world, and do things on your platform? That’s the business model.

If people are gathering in churches, gathering in real school rooms, if they’re going for walks together, go on picnics, having dinner parties, going to clubs, that’s an opportunity lost to Microsoft and Google and so on. But if they can drive you indoors, terrify you from being around other people, or make it unlawful to be around other people through these emergency powers that restrict assembly [then they can profit] …

Digital learning curriculum were turnkey, ready to go. Suddenly, it was like, ‘Oh, kids have to be at home and do distance learning.’ That’s a $300 million industry for just one company that creates digital curriculums. They’re not going to let go of that.

I think we are in a small loop of six tech companies [and] the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, having bought legislators in China, who’s up 32% while the economies of the West have crashed, and that’s the fight that we have to fight.”

The Legalization of Tyranny
Few people realize that dictators such as Mussolini and Hitler came to power in legal working democracies. They became subverted and rules of law were rewritten in such a way as to allow these leaders to legally take over. That’s one of the primary dangers we now face in the U.S., because at the end of step 10, the leader obtains the legal authority to become a tyrant.

“This is especially true of the National Socialists,” Wolf says. “They kept passing a set of laws called the Enabling Acts that are very much like the laws that are being passed now. They criminalized certain speech, created a surveillance apparatus for citizens … and they did this lawfully. They were elected, and they passed restrictive law after restrictive law.

Then, once democracy was fragile enough, it really only took six months for thugs to beat up opposition leaders, union leaders, the outspoken and clergy. After that, everyone was too scared to speak. We’re seeing the same thing happen now, but faster.

It’s very scary that China has created a white paper — the World Economic Forum has it on its website — that maps how biofascism, as I call it — vaccinations, the managing of people’s bodies, biometrics and health — is being launched as a way to control civic engagement, governance, private life, assembly and every other aspect of human life, to bring about super-fast totalitarianism.

That’s why focusing on legislation is something I’ve been doing with my company DailyClout, very seriously, because if we don’t pass laws immediately to make unlawful some of the things we’re seeing, there will be no more hope for us.”

Using the Legal System to Save the Law
One strategy of totalitarianism that must be fought through legislation is the requirement of vaccine passports.

“Once these are launched … people like you and I, Dr. Mercola, will be switched off of society. ‘Oops, my vaccine passport is positive. I guess I can’t go food shopping for my family.’ ‘I said something critical of biofascism on Dr. Mercola’s show, so now my child can’t get into school.’ Just as in Israel, people who are critics are being surveilled [and] marginalized from society.

It has turned into a two-tier society. If you choose not to get vaccinated, then you’re really in a marginalized minority in an apartheid state. The more we know about these vaccines, the scarier it is to have coercion that is social. It’s also illegal. In America, we have the Americans with Disabilities Act. It means it’s illegal to even ask me anything about my medical status.

You can’t ask me if I’m pregnant. You can’t ask me if I’m disabled. You can’t ask me if I have diabetes or HIV. You cannot ask me anything. By definition, these intrusive measures are unlawful. We have to use the law to save the law, basically. In Michigan, there’s an edict from the governor that 2- to 4-year-old children have to be masked. This is child abuse. Science doesn’t support it.

Unlawful, tyrannical laws are being passed across the country under the guise of emergency measures, and stupid people going along with it, like in Congress, I’m embarrassed to say, because I voted for Biden. We have to fight before we are living in fascist regime where every move is tracked and we’re marginalized from society.”

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Part 2 of 2
The Courts Are Our Last Hope, And They’re Now Under Attack
One area in which “The End of America” excels is helping you understand is that the United States was founded by people who had repressive societies. Their goal was to prevent such a repressive society from emerging again. The founders had to personally reckon with criminalized speech, arbitrary arrest, state sanctioned torture and even murder.

So, at great personal sacrifice, they signed the Constitution. Had they lost the Revolutionary War, they would all have been executed, so the stakes could not have been higher. As a result, our founding fathers constructed a carefully balanced system to make sure no tyrant could ever come to power.

We’re now facing a scenario that could obliterate that delicate balance, namely the Biden administration’s call to “pack the court,” i.e., add, in this case four, additional Justices to the Supreme Court.

We’re now facing a shift in our legal structure that will allow for the legalization of tyrannical reign and “legally” override the carefully constructed governmental balance between the legislative, executive and judicial branched that has previously served to prevent tyranny in the U.S.

This three-tier branch, constructed to safeguard our freedoms, is under direct attack, and this is NOT a partisan issue. Not by a longshot, and everyone needs to wake up to this fact. It’s an issue of freedom versus tyranny.

“Absolutely,” Wolf says. “Sadly, this is clear. That’s why I’m saying progressives have to wake up … I worry very much about the role of China in this, because I think we’ve seen that some people connected to the Democratic Party have close ties with members of the Chinese Communist Party. That is just established fact.

I’m not saying that the tyrants are on the left. In Britain, it’s Tories cracking down on liberty, holding the country under house arrest. In Australia it’s conservatives, in Canada it’s Trudeau, a liberal. This isn’t partisan. But in America, we do have to face the fact that this administration is drunk on power and has some bad actors aligned with it, including Silicon Valley.

They are crushing conservative voices, kicking them off of public platforms in addition to voices critical of the COVID narrative.

They’re also moving at warp speed to use their own phrasing about something else to lock in power in a way that is against everything our founders set in place — the most beautiful, delicate system of checks and balances any human beings have ever created; an ideal of people all over the world who want freedom and balanced accountable government.

Yeah, packing the Supreme Court is a horrific tampering with some of the last checks and balances that we have … I can’t believe I keep saying thank God for the conservatives on the bench. But these days, I have to say it, and I’m ashamed. But thank God, because they were the ones who in California said ‘No, you cannot keep people from assembling to worship. That is a violation of the Constitution.’

They’re our last hope. The courts are our last hope. It is catastrophic, and I see other scary movements against accountable democracy that are being put forward by this administration.

Among them, President Biden is not saying to the blue states: ‘You have to give up your emergency powers. You have to open up. You can’t control people in their homes, you can’t force people to have vaccinations and you can’t keep people from assembling and worshipping.’

These are all violations of their constitutional liberties. He’s not saying that. That’s a complete failure of leadership, if not worse. My people have to rise up and face it. Conservatives have to face cleaning up their own houses … What’s at stake is everything, and we all have to unite across party lines and save our Constitution and make these people accountable, whatever their party [affiliation].”

Urgent Call to Action
The good news is, the would-be tyrants have not won yet. That said, we have no time to spare. We have no time to remain idle, hoping it will all just go back to normal on its own. The answer is peaceful mass civil disobedience.

“There’s hope in mass peaceful civil disobedience … when things are really dire,” Wolf says. “My favorite story is about the singing revolution of Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia, in which they were under the grip of the Soviet Union, a massive tyrannical monolith. They all decided to just peacefully gather on a highway that extended the length of their three countries and sing.

They kept peacefully disrupting business as usual in their cities, making it impossible for work to continue, for traffic to go on. They sat down, they linked arms and they sang. Over time, they just wore down the Soviet Union. That’s a beautiful model. Same thing with Dr. Martin Luther King. His was a peaceful revolution of civil disobedience.”

This strategy is time-consuming, however, so be prepared to stand your ground for as long as it takes. It can take months, years even, when you have nothing else in your arsenal. Peaceful disobedience is the primary strategy in armed countries as well. As mentioned, we must also rally behind legislation that prevents the alteration of laws that safeguard our freedoms.

Join the Five Freedoms Campaign!
To that end, Wolf has started the Five Freedoms Campaign, which you can find on her Daily Clout website. The campaign focuses on creating legislation to preserve key freedoms and prevent emergency laws from infringing on our freedom to assembly, worship, protest and engage in business. Legislation is also being crafted to open schools, remove mask mandates and eliminate requirements for vaccine passports.

“We’ve had overwhelmingly high levels of support,” Wolf says. “I hope your followers will also join us. We hired a really distinguished lawyer who is drafting model legislation. She has finished the new vaccine passport bill and we’ve gotten state legislators in Maine, New Hampshire and Michigan to sponsor to pass that legislation.

I’m sending out the request for 47 other state legislatures to adopt this model legislation. Contact me, I’ll come out, I’ll speak to your legislature. We’ll do a rally, we’ll do a press conference, as we’re doing in Maine on April 27. We’ve got to pass these bills.

Then she’s going to work on an omnibus bill to make all five freedoms inviolable so that no one can pass mask mandates as they did in Michigan today. No one can force vaccine passports as they’re doing in New York, so that we can get our freedoms back.”

Wolf and her team are making this interactive process as easy as possible by posting good model bills on dailyclout.io, and proactively drafting much-needed bills. Many state legislators are not lawyers, and they don’t have lawyers at their beck and call. Citizens can now send these model bills to their legislators, knowing that they’ve undergone legal review and are ready to be passed. You can also go even further than that:

“You can tell us the bill you want. We can upload a campaign for that bill. We can hire our lawyer to draft a model bill and then you can pass it. What we’ve been doing is gathering names and zip codes, so that we can add real voters to this piece of model legislation in real states and send it to real state legislators and say, ‘Look, the supporters are all there. All you have to do is pass this.’

It’s a fantastic intervention in the political process, restoring real democracy. It’s why we founded Daily Clout, but it’s beautiful to see hundreds

and hundreds of people from all walks of life rushing to give us support and resources, to become members and give us donations, which we appreciate, so that we can keep our lawyer busy creating these draft bills. It’s not just for this issue. Once we get our rights and freedoms back, whatever [citizens] want, we can draft a bill for you, and you can [call on your legislators to] pass it.”

Limiting Emergency Powers
Another facet that needs to be addressed is governors’ emergency powers. Some states have been locked down under emergency power for more than a year, which is insane, considering we’re not in an emergency and haven’t been for many months. These emergency powers need to be limited in some way, as they are at the heart of all this unlawful behavior. As explained by Wolf:

“Emergency law basically suspends the Constitution of the United States. As I’ve said elsewhere, the Constitution doesn’t say all this can be suspended if there’s disease. We’ve been through typhus, cholera, smallpox, HIV, Spanish flu, polio, tuberculosis — disease after disease, without ever having emergency law extended without review month after month.

We’ve had world wars fought without emergency laws. We were attacked on our soil without emergency law being declared in New York state after 9/11. There’s no justification for it. It’s against everything we believe in. It’s unconstitutional.”

So, one of the five freedoms Wolf’s campaign focuses on is the restriction of emergency laws. New Hampshire has become the first state to pass a bill that accomplishes this. It reforms emergency law such that the Governor’s emergency powers cannot be indefinitely extended without review by the legislature. They also passed a bill that guarantees freedom of worship, and another bill that ensures emergency law cannot be invoked indefinitely in any future crisis.4

“We’ve now passed along our model ‘No vaccine passport’ bill to the New Hampshire legislators,” Wolf says. “If they can do it in New Hampshire, with our help, with your help, they can do it across the country. But we need to get that model legislation out to every legislature and mobilize that grassroots movement to pass the end of emergency law.

I mean, look what’s happening in New York State. It’s insane. Fourteen state legislators are trying to get Governor Cuomo to end emergency law. But as our laws are written, Governor Cuomo has to be the one to end his own emergency law.

There’re a huge amount of lobbying that has to happen for these legislators to understand that there are eyes on them, that they’re accountable. I’m going to be reporting and … hopefully millions of people will be following and helping to pass these laws to get back our rights.”

Daily Clout Empowers Citizens to Lobby for Freedom
To be clear, the Daily Clout is not a lobbying group. YOU are the ones lobbying your legislators. Daily Clout simply provides the needed assistance so that you can do that easily and effectively.

“It’s such a beautiful effort, because you’d have to come out and say, ‘The people of New Hampshire have no right to pass their own legislation’ in order to oppose an effort like this,” Wolf says. “We’re not a special interest. It’s just the people. It’s the people of New Hampshire, people of Maine, passing their own legislation.

I do hear, consistently, that Democrats won’t help, that in many states with their democratic majorities, it’s going to be difficult if Democrats don’t reach across the aisle and add their names. I’m sending out the call to Democrats to support this legislation.

I’m going to warn everyone, speaking as a former political consultant, that the party that embraces the restoration of freedom is going to be the party that wins in 2022 and 2024. There’s no question about that. This is going to be a winning issue.

People know something is terribly wrong, but they don’t know what to do. This is a completely unprecedented assault on liberty. With my many years in national politics, I know what to do. This is why we developed Daily Clout. If you show up with a turnkey piece of legislation and some turnkey supporters, that’s a very quick fix for a really catastrophic crisis that has a legislative solution.

As long as there’s still legislatures, we can pass good legislation at the state level. At the federal level, it’s going to be harder, because there isn’t any balance right now.

I’m very inspired there’s so many people serving at the state legislature level who are really decent citizens, who are not partisan hacks. People who really ran to help their neighbors and help their communities and who are not wholly owned by China, Big Tech or whatever, and who want to do the right thing.

I could be wrong, but in two weeks [since we launched the Daily Clout site] we’ve already been invited to address state legislators and draft legislation for three, and that’s without any marketing budget or anything but platforms like this, where I say it’s available.

We started Daily Clout because citizens didn’t have a platform to be effective at lobbying for their own issues. This is a turnkey platform that does that for them. I designed it that way. I designed it, as a former political consultant, knowing that the way things are set up, ordinary citizens don’t have a seat at the table. There is no easy way to engage in civic action. This makes it easy, makes it digital and people are using it.”

How to Use the Daily Clout Site
So, how do you get involved? First, go to dailyclout.io and sign up to become a paying member or free subscriber. You will then receive an email explaining how to use the Five Freedoms Campaign. Presently, there is a model “no vaccination passports” bill that you can send to your state legislator.

There’s also a feature called BillCam, where you can see who your state legislator is by entering your zip code. Daily Clout will also email you links and explain how to find your state legislator. If you provide your name and zip code, which will remain confidential, your state legislator’s contact information will be included in the email.

“We’re creating a widget right now to attach your name and zip code to the model bills so it goes right to your state legislator, showing that the bill already has support,” Wolf explains. “But in the meantime, you can look up any bill on BillCam. Those are bills that have already been introduced or passed.

There are ‘No vaccine passport’ bills, for instance. We’re showcasing them on BillCam. It’s already set up, so you can just tweet it to the sponsor, tweet it to representative. You can Facebook it to your community. It already goes through social media and you can show support by ‘voting on it’ in the widget on BillCam as you share legislation with your community.”

Once you’re a subscriber or member, you’ll get regular updates about happenings around the U.S. and community events. They’re also installing a widget that will allow you to meet with like-minded people in your state who want this legislation passed. Lastly, you can write to Daily Clout and ask them to draft a bill. A lawyer will then be assigned to draft it for you.

“Right now, we’re focused on the Five Freedoms Campaign, but there is that functionality. You can write a blog and explain the bill that you want. You can send us a video and explain what your issue is, and all of this goes to shining a light on the legislators. They’re not used to having a light shone on them. That really does drive outcomes. Those are the steps that you can take,” Wolf says.

We’ve already seen how effective this strategy can be, with New Hampshire passing three bills to protect citizens’ freedoms.

“I never want to take credit away from legislators working hard to pass bills, but I know that we helped,” Wolf says. “I know that our lawyer has been in close touch with some of those state legislators in New Hampshire and provided language that we pay for, so that those legislators would have a turnkey bill to act on.”
Hundreds of people also wrote to New Hampshire’s Governor Christopher Sununu, urging him to lift the mask mandate, which he recently did. Knowing that the Daily Clout would report on the outcome of that campaign, he not only felt the political pressure, but he also knew he had support from his constituents. So, please, use this unprecedented opportunity to get involved, in any capacity that you can.

Your freedom, and that of future generations, hinge on our getting involved and fighting for it. Last but not least, to understand where we are and how we got here, I strongly recommend reading “The End of America.” In the video below, Wolf reads select chapters from the book. You can also download the first and last chapters for free on the publisher’s website, chelseagreen.com.5

https://youtu.be/KYCRVNFVc2M 14:56 min

 

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Just think of it as the "Lifestyle" section of a big Sunday edition of the newspaper and scan and select headlines that interest you.

But there's no Crossword puzzle ......

 

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Department of Education is stalling complaints against race, sex segregation, critics say

"It's now been 638 days since I filed a simple, straightforward Title IX complaint" against female-only program, professor says.

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Department of Education is stalling complaints against race, sex segregation, critics say

"It's now been 638 days since I filed a simple, straightforward Title IX complaint" against female-only program, professor says.
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Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona
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By Greg Piper
Updated: April 25, 2021 - 11:06pm

When the University of Denver hosted race-based gatherings for students, faculty and staff "to process the outcome" of the November election, a student filed a complaint with the Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights.

Christi Collins got a quick response from an enforcement attorney in OCR's Denver office, and they scheduled a phone call. Then the attorney asked to postpone, and disappeared for two months. Their last contact was Feb. 22.

"At this time, OCR is evaluating your complaint, and I apologize for the delay and inconvenience," Lori Welker wrote in the email, one of several communications Collins shared with Just the News. "I will be in touch when we have completed the evaluation."

Two months later, it's still unclear what action, if any, OCR has taken with regard to Collins' complaint. The University of Denver, which is private, told Just the News it has "not been notified of any investigation by OCR or the Department of Education."

The department and OCR Denver office didn't respond to queries. Welker ignored questions from Just the News, saying the Denver query had been forwarded to the D.C. press office.

According to a professor who says he's filed hundreds of civil rights complaints against university programs restricted by race and sex, this is par for the course with the Denver office.

"The Denver OCR is a notoriously bad actor, much worse than any other regional office from my experience (and others)," University of Michigan-Flint economist Mark Perry wrote in an email to Just the News.

The American Enterprise Institute scholar shared his own correspondence with the Denver office and D.C. headquarters all the way through last week, regarding a complaint that's nearly two years old.

"It's now been 638 days (21.3 months or 1.72 years) since I filed a simple, straightforward Title IX complaint vs. the University of Utah on July 17, 2019, for a single, single-sex, female-only program called Hi-Girls Engineering Abilities Realized," Perry wrote to multiple OCR officials April 15.

Regarding the handling of Collins' complaint, filed in the lame-duck Trump administration, Perry doesn't think the switchover to the Biden administration is responsible for its pace.

The resolution of Perry's complaints, which he started filing in earnest in 2018, "seem to be moving at about the same speed" under President Biden, "which is pretty slow," he said.

The professor achieved an unusually fast complaint resolution earlier this week when Michigan State University altered an upcoming conference that was to feature "affinity groups" restricted by race.

It did not intend to discriminate by creating discussion groups for "white folx" and "people of color," the university told The College Fix. (The invitation asked whites and nonwhites to stay out of each other's groups.) Both affinity groups will now be open to all conference participants.

Still evaluating whether to investigate five months later
The Department of Education apparently started receiving so many complaints about sex-restricted programs and scholarships that it added two new "issue codes" early last year.

A former education official in the Trump administration started filing his own complaints once Biden took office.

Race-restricted programs and scholarships don't yet have their own issue codes as such. But affinity spaces, caucuses, orientations, graduations and living arrangements restricted by race have drawn widespread attention in recent years.

The University of Denver's Graduate School of Social Work offered post-election caucuses for black, mixed-race, "people of color" and white students, according to an email Collins shared with the Young America's Foundation (YAF) last fall.

She went back to YAF two months after her last contact with Welker, the enforcement attorney. YAF published OCR Denver's email address April 19: "Let the Department of Education know they will not get away with trying to sweep this racist incident under the rug."

Correspondence shared with Just the News shows that OCR responded to Collins' complaint just four days after she filed it. In a Nov. 10 letter, a staffer estimated it would complete an initial evaluation within 30 days.

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Welker emailed Collins Nov. 16 to schedule a phone interview. She told the student Dec. 4 they would talk about "your role at the University and additional information related to the caucus groups," and they scheduled a call for Dec. 9.

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Collins told YAF that Welker then postponed the call and didn't respond to her attempts to reschedule. She emailed the attorney Feb. 19 and received a response three days later, disclosing that the initial evaluation was still in progress.

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The student told Just the News she didn't recall trying to reach Welker since then: "I have felt so stumped!"

Chronic delay best explained by bad faith
Perry's frustration with OCR's Denver office is palpable in an email chain he shared that goes back to January. The professor told Just the News he had another eight emails from 2020.

"It's now been 544 days since I first filed the complaint and I haven't yet received notification whether this complaint will be opened for an investigation," he wrote to OCR attorney Stephen Chen Jan. 11.

Chen responded the next day that the office had "initiated some investigative actions so that we could review the scope of the complaint and understand the context around it." (Perry regards this response as "classic bureaucratic mumbo jumbo.")

A week later, Perry told Chen that OCR's new "technical assistance" on single-sex programs made his complaint against the University of Utah even stronger.
"I don't think I have ever had a simple evaluation take this long and I've filed almost 300 complaints now" across all 12 regional offices, he wrote. Chen acknowledged the email.

On March 4, Perry told Chen that OCR's San Francisco office had evaluated, investigated and recently resolved a different complaint within a six-month window.

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The professor asked for "any explanation of what could cause such an unprecedented delay" at OCR Denver, which now set his personal record for longest wait time. He copied Denver director Aaron Romine and Randolph Wills, the agency's enforcement director.

On April 15, Perry contacted them all again. OCR Denver is violating its legal obligations and may be "acting in bad faith," given the continuing delay, he wrote, asking for a different attorney or different OCR office to take over his complaint.

"I'm not surprised at all by Christi Collins's experience," he told Just the News. Romine has not responded even to direct emails, and Wills has not responded to copied emails, even though the girls-only STEM program is a "valid complaint that meets all the criteria for an investigation."

Perry encouraged students and alumni to first file internal complaints with their own universities, since they are "legally obligated" to evaluate Title VI and Title IX complaints from within the community.

 

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New website allows parents, teachers to upload what they consider evidence of radical curriculum

Users of the watchdog site can upload pictures, documents and other materials from child's class online.

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New website allows parents, teachers to upload what they consider evidence of radical curriculum

Users of the watchdog site can upload pictures, documents and other materials from child's class online.

By Nicholas Sherman
Updated: April 20, 2021 - 1:23pm

A North Carolina education advocacy group has launched a website to help whistleblowers expose what they consider radical curriculum in K-12 schools, including lessons on critical race theory.

The Schoolhouse Shock site was launched Monday by Education First Alliance and allows users to anonymously upload videos, pictures, documents and other material.

"Racial discrimination and critical race theory matter, not just because they erode the fabric of this nation, or threaten our freedom, they matter because they fly in the face of the belief that every person, every child, is just as important as the next," the group says.

Group President Sloan Rachmuth the members' goal is to help parents and teachers "fight against" these types of curriculums by allowing people to see for themselves what is being taught at their children's schools, according to The Washington Free Beacon.

 

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A Rigged System Can’t Last

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A Rigged System Can’t Last

Kurt Schlichter
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Posted: Apr 26, 2021 12:01 AM

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You can’t win, but that’s all part of the plan.

Reason, rules, processes – these are the foundations of a free society, which is why the cultural left is so dead set against them. A citizen needs to be able to rely on clear rules and fixed processes to vindicate his rights in order to have any rights. But the rights of free citizens – your rights – are an obstacle to the Lil’ Stalins who yearn to rule over us. If the liberal establishment can create a society where you can’t appeal to facts, evidence, or law, then – until the peasants' revolt – its poobahs can wield undisputed, undiluted authority. That’s their dream, a country where you live in terror of them because you can never be sure that what you are doing or failing to do is suddenly going to be criminalized.

Take the whole imbroglio about Stabby Girl, the teen psycho in Ohio who decided to filet a girl in front of a cop. Not surprisingly, to people who aren’t idiots, the officer ventilated her, saving the life of the innocent victim. But then, of course, the establishment and the media – including America’s #1 Matlock superfan – weighed in on how stopping this future felon was racist racism of racismness. Normal people were baffled, but then, it’s only if you haven’t been paying attention that you might think that non-criminal black lives matter to Black Lives Matter.

Now, let me put on my lawyer hat – no, I’m not your lawyer and consult one in your jurisdiction before you do stuff. There’s this basic Anglo-American premise in law – I know we’re supposed to pretend that our political and legal culture didn’t come down to us the British Isles but it did – that you can use deadly force in the defense of yourself or another when some bad actor is trying to cause death or great bodily harm. This is not subject to rational or honest dispute. With some minor tweaks, this is generally the rule and has been for over a thousand years. So, leaving aside that this is not only morally proper but a moral imperative, we have a clear law saying you can shoot someone to stop him, her, or xir from killing someone else.

Now, we take the facts (as revealed by the evidence) and apply them to the law.

And here we have some pretty remarkable facts, all documented by unimpeachable evidence. Ma’Khia the Knife was caught on candid body camera in mid-slash when the officer, after calling out for her to stop, made his incredible four shots. So, there’s no meaningful dispute about how the evidence applies to the law. The facts and evidence disclose that he acted completely within well-established law.

Now, you might think this would present a problem for the fascists, but if you do you need to get woke. There’s no law anymore. Reason is a bourgeois conceit.

They have figured out that you can simply deny the existence of law, evidence, and facts. And they figured out that Democrats like Grandpa Badfinger and the slobbering media hacks who engage in a perpetual media tongue bath of their lefty overlords will back them up.

See the problem? If you can’t rely on the law or the evidence, then you are at the mercy of the whims of the liberal elite. Sure, the cop did the right thing, and the evidence is indisputable that he did the right thing, but it doesn’t matter at all.

The cop is wrong and subject to all sorts of sanctions not because he violated any rule but purely because it is useful for him to be guilty of something.

The Rule of Law has become the Rule of Power, which the bad guys possess for the moment. And they are so arrogant about it that they do not even bother to make a straight-faced argument against cops saving black children’s lives. Hey, it’s just a routine kid knife fight – no biggie. We all remember back in the day, hacking up other suburban teens with machetes and scimitars, and how the cops never bothered us. Not allowing black teens to be gutted is worse than Jim Crow – it’s Jim Eagle. Heck, it’s Jim Rodan.

And we all know if that punk planted a shiv in the other girl’s gut on the bodycam tape, the cop would be lynched for not stopping her. You can’t win, which is the idea.

You can’t have a society where normal people can’t possibly prevail by obeying well-established rules. You’re not wrong because you did something wrong but because you're being wrong is handy for the people who hate you.

Today, we normal people can no longer rely on the law or the facts to protect us.

We’re seeing this again and again. Scumbag losers threaten a family in St. Louis, who arm up to defend themselves, and they get charged. Some guy just wants to go home, get blocked by scumbag losers, and get arrested. On the macro tip, people who never owned slaves now somehow owe a huge debt over slavery to people who were never slaves. Guilt is determined not by law and evidence but by its convenience to the would-be tyrants. There’s no justice, just arbitrary exercises of power designed to reinforce the liberal paradigm. No matter how you act, no matter what you do, you are wrong, and if that requires tossing out the rules or ignoring the evidence, fine.

This is how our oppressors like it. But this is not how we like it. Normal people can only take getting bopped on the noggin by the southpaw monkey in the Nairobi Trio for so long before they hit back. You cannot have an enduring status quo where one side is firmly bound to rules and obligations while the other gets to make it up as they go along. Eventually, you will inevitably reach a breaking point. And that’s coming. Then the bad guys are going to miss the rules that they still expect to protect them.

 

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Hateful MSNBC Pundit: Republicans 'Are the Same People' as Slave Owners

After falsely smearing the Georgia voting bill as racist, MSNBC decided over the last week that they have to do the same with Florida's anti-riot bill.

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Hateful MSNBC Pundit: Republicans 'Are the Same People' as Slave Owners
Duncan Schroeder
April 26th, 2021 1:15 PM

After falsely smearing the Georgia voting bill as racist, MSNBC decided over the last week that they have to do the same with Florida's anti-riot bill. So on Sunday morning’s Velshi, MSNBC host Ali Velshi brought on far-left Rutgers professor and author Brittney Cooper to not only lie about the law, but accuse anyone and everyone on the right as being “the same people who turned people into property” and “always” prioritizes “property over life.”

Velshi refused to rebut any of this. One has to wonder if Velshi feels that way about any and all conservatives and/or Republicans he knows in his life.

He initiated the hateful propaganda by hilariously insisting that “the things we saw last year are -- were not insurrection, they were protests against unjust government.” And yes, this was the same person who downplayed the riots as they were happening in Minneapolis in what became a viral video.

https://cdn.mrctv.org/videos/52627/52627-480p.mp4 1:37 min

Velshi then disingenuously suggested peaceful demonstrations would be outlawed in Florida and things like the civil rights movement wouldn't be possible in present-day Florida:

Dr. Cooper, they’re talking about unlawful assembly and you know, they’re a lot of my -- a lot of my -- maybe not my viewers but a lot of people in America who would say well, if you’re conducting unlawful assembly, you should be in trouble. Except so many of our lawmakers, so many of the people who changed the unjust laws in this country did so through unlawful assembly, including Martin Luther King. The concept of riots, which are determined locally by police, you can get stuck by just showing up in something that someone decided was a riot.

Just over 24 hours earlier, MSNBC's The Cross Connection deceptively edited a video of Polk County, Florida Sheriff Grady Judd to only show him condemning violent riots and edited out the sheriff encouraging peaceful protests as such protests are “the foundation of our country.”

Cooper then launched into an deranged rant where she labeled Republicans “white supremacists” and argued they're “the same people who turned people into property and so certainly they have always cared more about property than about life” (click “expand”):

I think the thing we have to be clear about is that the GOP has abdicated their investment in governing. They’re not giving us any semblance anymore that they care about rights or protection of rights or humanity. They are engaged in a brazen, you know, sort of consolidation of white power. That is what this is all about. Appeals to truth, to justice, to notions of rights don't compel them anymore because they see a country being taken away from them. They see a country moving too fast. They see a country becoming too inclusive. And so they're trying to consolidate power.

The second thing is that one of the sort of hallmarks of white supremacy is that it always values property over life and when you see these kinds of perverse bills that say you must protect your monuments or you can't get state funding, that's actually part and parcel of how white supremacists have thought about what it means to be a part of the body politic, that these are the same people who turned people into property and so certainly they have always cared more about their -- about property than about life. And so, you know, I think we should stop trying to figure out where the moral compass is or what they are trying to do. They don't care anymore about the function of good government. Expand

Such disgusting attacks are nothing new for Cooper, as she has claimed on MSNBC that the views of Trump supporters are “rooted in racism” and “a desire for power at the expense of everyone who is black and brown.” She has also written that the God of the evangelical right is an “asshole” and that he is “the god of white supremacy and patriarchy.” This has also been quite the week of making absurd statements on MSNBC for Cooper, as earlier this week she defended Ma’Khia Bryant, who the Columbus, Ohio police shot for attempting to stab another girl, by claiming that black women can’t “have a bad day” and that the police shot her for not “being perfect.”Oftentimes, MSNBC operates more like a hate group than a news network by nastily smearing all those who disagree with it.

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Read the full April 25th transcript here:

MSNBC's Velshi
04/25/21
9:49:51 AM

ALI VELSHI: And -- and the things we saw last year are -- were not insurrection, they were protests against unjust government. Dr. Cooper, they’re talking about getting convicted unlawful assembly and -- and you know, they’re a lot of my -- a lot of my -- maybe not my viewers but a lot of people in America who would say well, if you’re -- you’re conducting unlawful assembly, you should be in trouble. Except so many of our lawmakers, so many of the people who changed the unjust laws in this country did so through unlawful assembly, including Martin Luther King. The -- the -- the concept of riots, which are determined locally by police, you can get stuck by just showing up in something that someone decided was a riot.

BRITTNEY COOPER: Look, I -- I think the thing we have to be clear about is that the GOP has abdicated their investment in governing. They’re not giving us any semblance anymore that they care about rights or protection of rights or humanity. They are engaged in a brazen, you know, sort of consolidation of white power. That is what this is all about. Appeals to truth, to justice, to notions of rights don't compel them anymore because they see a country being taken away from them. They see a country moving too fast. They see a country becoming too inclusive. And so they're trying to consolidate power. The second thing is that one of the sort of hallmarks of white supremacy is that it always values property over life and when you see these kinds of, you know, perverse bills that say you must protect your monuments or you can't get state funding, that's actually part and parcel of how white supremacists have thought about what it means to be a part of the body politic, that these are the same people who turned people into property and so certainly they have always cared more about their -- about property than about life and so, you know, I think we should stop trying to figure out where the moral compass is or what they are trying to do. They don't care anymore about the function of good government. They care -- and -- and finally, let me say this. The Capitol riots, that was -- that’s the only civil disobedience that they think is okay -- is a -- is -- is an actual takeover of state power. Then they recognize it. But for the rest of us, they see people's protests for justice as an attempt at a coup and they see their own attempts at a coup as their desperate pleas for justice and when your thinking is so perverse and shifted, there's really nothing else we can do.

 

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Arts Council Apologizes For Funding ‘White, Western Eurocentric’ Opera And Symphony In North Carolina

The Arts and Science Council received backlash after apologizing for funding

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Arts Council Apologizes For Funding ‘White, Western Eurocentric’ Opera And Symphony In North Carolina

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April 26, 20214:08 PM ET

The Arts and Science Council in Charlotte, North Carolina has received backlash after apologizing for not supporting enough black artists and instead funding “white, western Eurocentric’ opera and symphony, according to The Charlotte Observer.

In a Cultural Equity report, the council stated that their financial decisions created inequitable support of minority cultural organizations in Charlotte.

“ASC has been complicit in upholding funding practices that elevate certain cultures, creative traditions, identities and art forms above others…It is important to apologize, acknowledge and accept accountability for the role ASC has played in creating and perpetuating systems and structures that have exacerbated inequities in our cultural community and beyond,” the report reads.

The council’s president, Krista Terrell, discussed the criticism the ASC received after issuing the apology, and said she received several critical messages from cultural leaders and art groups, The Charlotte Observer reported.

“While I knew the facts in the report were startling, I never thought I would experience so intimately the uncomfortableness, the defensiveness, and the scaredness of white people reacting to the unvarnished truth.” said Terrell in a post on the Americans for the Arts website.



She also stated that she wasn’t sure whether people were more upset that the report described legacy groups as “white, Western, Eurocentric” or about the graphic showing nine groups that received more funding than all minority groups combined, The Charlotte Observer reported.

“What I know for sure, based on their behavior and reactions, is they would have tried to whitewash the truth for their comfort,” Terrel wrote, according to The Charlotte Observer.



Terrell said that the council is planning community listening sessions regarding the equity report called “Beyond the Soundbites,” The Charlotte Observer reported.

 

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MSNBC's Wallace: Trump Revealed the Republicans Stand for 'Flagrant Racism'

MSNBC anchor Nicolle Wallace said Monday on her show "Deadline" that former President Donald Trump showed Republicans stood for "flagrant racism." | Clips

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MSNBC’s Wallace: Trump Revealed the Republicans Stand for ‘Flagrant Racism’

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MSNBC anchor Nicolle Wallace said Monday on her show “Deadline” that former President Donald Trump showed Republicans stood for “flagrant racism.”

On the current recount in Arizona, The Bulwark’s Charlie Sykes said, “You are actually now seeing a larger and larger portion of the Republican base who think in terms of these conspiracy theories, who are open to these kinds of ideas and who expect this. So you have, again, it is largely about Donald Trump, but it is also almost moving past Donald Trump because Donald Trump has left in his wake this weird stew of false information, incredulousness, and people like Kevin McCarthy that don’t have moral integrity or backbone to stand up and speak against it.”

Wallace said, “I totally agree with you.”

She continued, “This is the conversation that needs to be had. We covered this incorrectly. Fear of Trump was the excuse for all of Mitch McConnell and Rob Portman and Kevin McCarthy and all these weenies who looked the other way when Kasie Hunt and Leigh Ann Caldwell and Garrett Haake were there with the cameras saying, ‘Do you believe this outrageous thing that Donald Trump tweeted today.’ Our frame was they must be afraid of our cameras because they’re scared of Trump. We were wrong. They are Trump. You are right. This story is no longer about Trump. It is what Tump revealed the Republicans to be.”

Referencing former President George W. Bush, Wallace continued, “I dare say my old boss was putting it nicely when he said Republicans now they stand for isolationism, protectionism and nativism. I will add one more, flagrant racism.

How do you not lump extremism into it too if you look at the intersection between the ideology that represents the greatest domestic violent extremism threat and the lies that Kevin McCarthy refused to knock down when Chris Wallace gave him multiple chances to do yesterday?”

Sykes said, “These guys have been playing with matches for four years, dousing kerosene on American democracy.”

 

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Amanda Milius on the Oscars: Hollywood Now Culturally Irrelevant

Filmmaker Amanda Milius told Breitbart News on Monday that Hollywood undermined its own influence over America by abandoning conservatives.

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Exclusive — Amanda Milius on the Oscars: Hollywood’s Abandonment of ‘Half of America’ Made It ‘Culturally Irrelevant’
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Filmmaker Amanda Milius told Breitbart News on Monday that Hollywood undermined its own influence over America by abandoning conservatives.

Ambition within the entertainment industry blocks Hollywood insiders from publicly criticizing false orthodoxies espoused by their peers, Milius stated on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily with host Alex Marlow, author of Breaking the News: Exposing the Establishment Media’s Hidden Deals and Secret Corruption. She noted Tinseltown’s decades of direct and indirect left-wing political advocacy.

“What Hollywood is — and what it’s always been — is a bunch of people who seek relevance and influence more than anything,” she remarked. “Nobody’s going to say the emperor has no clothes. Nobody is going to turn around and say, ‘This thing we’ve dedicated ourselves to — changing American culture and this sort of cultural Marxist point of view [has] snowballed out of control.'”
Milius pointed to the Oscars ceremony’s focus on COVID-19 as illustrative of Hollywood’s disconnection from most Americans.

She added, ‘They really are just culturally irrelevant, like this weird COVID ceremony performative thing that they did last night about. That was also part of it. It wasn’t just the usual wokeness. They also had to do this insane hypochondriac performance while they were awarding their wokeness, which was even weirder. … It was totally bizarre, totally out of touch.”

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The New York Times observed the emphasis of the Oscars ceremony on COVID-19, highlighting special procedures implemented by the event’s organizers that were said be done in the interest of health and safety. It wrote, “[The Oscars] had to do it in a Covid-19-safe manner (while continually pointing out that it was doing so).”

Hollywood diminishes its influence by alienating conservatives, Marlow determined.

He said, “They’re really struggling with this thing where they want to be these cultural trendsetters with the wokeness. But they’ve hemorrhaged so much of their audience. … How are they going to be this influential culturally if there isn’t any shared culture? And there’s not that much of a shared culture anymore, because of Hollywood. Hollywood was a closest thing we had to a shared culture other than sports, which is, I guess, next to try to destroy itself with wokeness.”
Milius described Hollywood’s abandonment of conservative audiences as an opportunity for filmmakers.

“The door is wide open, because Hollywood has abandoned every type of movie that could be appealing to people across all kinds of spectrums [in] the United States,” she said. “My friends and I like to say we really have a great future in front of us. It’s really an amazing thing, because I want to make movies for the other half of America, and so if Hollywood is going to abandon half the American audience … basically, they’re making an ideological business decision.”

Lowering costs of film production relative to previous decades further weakens the hold held by Hollywood over film and television production, Milius noted.
She continued, “What they’re doing is just leaving a giant pile of money and content on the table for somebody to come along and make. [This is enabled by] technological changes and things that have been going on for … quite a few years. You don’t have to make movies in Hollywood, anymore. There’s no need to be there, and there’s no need for their system of acceptance, because I don’t need their money. There’s no more gatekeeping to movies really in that way.”

Milius warned that left-wing institutions amplify their authoritarianism to coerce ideological compliance among the public as their politics become increasingly disconnected from reality.

“What [leftists] do when they’re wrong and they can’t admit it — and their wrongness bumps up against [the] empirical reality of whatever the situation is — [is] they become more authoritarian,” she remarked. “So when the wokeness doesn’t catch on … [and when] people didn’t adopt their little verbal modifications the way that they had hoped, they just became more authoritarian about it. They started cancelling people if they said the wrong thing. They started having punishments for people who didn’t go along with [this] culturally Marxist agenda that they had.”

She concluded, “What’s scary is whenever they’re confronted with wrongness, they just try to break reality into their perspective instead of adjusting their point of view.”

Los Angeles’s temporary removal of homeless people from Union Station in Los Angeles — vacating the area so the Oscars could be hosted there — epitomizes the contradictions of Hollywood, Milius shared.

She said, “The best thing I heard about the Oscars that wasn’t actually part of the ceremony was these stories about how they had to shoe all the homeless people away from Union Station so that they could film their Oscars thing. I mean, to me, that image just sums up Hollywood better than anything they could have actually written.”

Fox 11 in Los Angeles reported, “[Union Station is] an area that is plagued by homelessness. But come Oscar Sunday, the homeless will not be seen anywhere near Union Station. … Not exactly a surprise to Andy Bales of Union Rescue Mission. Bales says anytime there is a big national event, Los Angeles tries to sweep its homelessness problem under the rug.”

Millius directed The Plot Against The President, a documentary film based on Lee Smith’s book of the same name.

 

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How Congress is pushing for our schools to teach racialist anti-Americanism

Congress has been busy introducing bills supposedly to improve American civics education but really to stoke anti-American neo-racism. In classic top-down fashion and with titles such as The …

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How Congress is pushing for our schools to teach racialist anti-Americanism

By Teresa R. Manning
April 17, 2021 | 12:40pm | Updated

New bills in Congress plan to force Critical Race Theory on children in the name of civics education, planting hatred of America in the minds of the next generation. A real civics education results in love of country.Shutterstock

Congress has been busy introducing bills supposedly to improve American civics education but really to stoke anti-American neo-racism.

In classic top-down fashion and with titles such as The Civics Learning Act, these federal initiatives would impose identity politics on all American schools with things like Critical Race Theory (“CRT”), a pseudo-pedagogy obsessed with skin color and perfect for fomenting racial discord. CRT teaches that America was founded on racial bigotry, that slavery and racial oppression are the nation’s leading characteristics and that all so-called white people are to blame while all so-called “people of color” are their victims.

Civics or the grievance industry? To ask is to answer.

As is their wont, Congress uses money to try to impose its will by offering millions in grants to schools that will use CRT and focus on current “political controversies” sure to criticize America rather than study it. Worse, these grants allow schools to give course credit for political protests, putting left-wing activism on par with factual knowledge.

These programs are also popping up at the state level — alternately called “activist” or “engagement” civics and “service” or “‘performative” learning — in case the federal bills fail.



In response, the National Association of Scholars has launched a new Civics Alliance to fight for real civics education, focused on dates and documents, not racialist anti-Americanism. Everyone knows that Americans lack basic knowledge of their own government and history. Most cannot name the three branches of government, cannot identify foundational documents such as the Declaration of Independence and cannot date the Revolutionary War, much less the Civil War.

This is also true of highly credentialed individuals such as college graduates and Ph.D. candidates. (Unfortunately, many students actually lose knowledge during college, not just in history but also in math and writing.)

Every level of American education bears some responsibility for this state of affairs. But obviously the answer to such ignorance is not activism, by whatever name, but a focus on events, dates, documents and basic historical figures.

The NAS Civics Alliance opposes all politicking and partisanship in the classroom, which should remain a place to transmit knowledge and encourage thought, not activism. And every educational level should instill the constitutional values of our Bill of Rights, especially that we have natural rights and liberties that any legitimate government must respect.

For the darker chapters of American history including the commercial slave trade, the Trail of Tears and the eugenics of forced sterilization for the disabled, real civics education should introduce them when appropriate (when they can be understood) and in historical context: Did most nations and peoples engage in these behaviors at the time? When and why were these practices eventually denounced and abandoned? Do they exist anywhere today?

The natural result of real civics education is love of country and appreciation for one’s heritage, notwithstanding real historical sins. Like individuals, nations are never perfect and should be judged by their ideals, efforts and complete record, not just their crimes. Most Americans sense that their country is a good and decent place. They can see that millions are literally dying to live here. A real civics education would give them the understanding of why this is so.



NAS also urges caution for any civics initiative that wades away from dates and documents, or partners with groups responsible for the current mess. A decade ago, radical educrats included conservatives in their development of the “Common Core,” another so-called educational initiative that promoted politics instead of learning. That partnership gave rise to today’s ignorance.

Those who choose to see America as “irredeemably racist” and work to change almost everything about it — its form of government, its moral heritage, its language and its people — obviously dislike America. And just as obviously, they’re not on the same team as those who love it. Pretending otherwise is not only a fool’s errand but a death sentence for real civics education.

 

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Marsh, Thank you for your work here!

 

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Stunning revelation from NYC teacher… Check this one-liner…

NYC teacher Paul Rossi — “I should only have conservatives who have white skin, because that would not confuse or enflame the students.” Dave Rubin talks to Paul Rossi, a whistl…

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Stunning revelation from NYC teacher… Check this one-liner…
Posted by Kane on April 27, 2021 2:06 pm

NYC teacher Paul Rossi — “I should only have conservatives who have white skin, because that would not confuse or enflame the students.”

Dave Rubin talks to Paul Rossi, a whistleblower and math teacher at Grace Church School, about the NYC private school’s critical race theory curriculum that led him to publish “I Refuse to Stand By While My Students Are Indoctrinated” on the Substack of Bari Weiss.

In this clip Paul reveals the damage being done by critical race theory being forced onto young kids. Paul describes how critical race theory in education had been building slowly for years. Recently he had noticed the damaging effects it was having on his students by making them feel like they couldn’t have opinions that differed from the social justice orthodoxy. Young kids were made to feel guilt and shame over their alleged “white privilege”. He also describes the incident that made him decide to speak up and put his job at risk.

Read the full letter from Paul Rossi…

Here’s the full interview

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9:41 min

 

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Judicial Watch: Documents Show CA State Officials Coordinated with Big Tech to Censor Americans’ Election Posts - Judicial Watch

Used Biden for President’s Communications Firm to Identify ‘Misinformation’ (Washington, DC) Judicial Watch announced today that it received 540 pages and a supplemental four pages of documents from the office of the Secretary of State of California revealing how state officials pressured...

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Judicial Watch: Documents Show CA State Officials Coordinated with Big Tech to Censor Americans’ Election Posts

Used Biden for President’s Communications Firm to Identify ‘Misinformation’
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(Washington, DC) Judicial Watch announced today that it received 540 pages and a supplemental four pages of documents from the office of the Secretary of State of California revealing how state officials pressured social media companies (Twitter, Facebook, Google (YouTube)) to censor posts about the 2020 election. Included in these documents were “misinformation briefings” emails that were compiled by communications firm SKDK, that lists Biden for President as their top client of 2020. The documents show how the state agency successfully pressured YouTube to censor a Judicial Watch video concerning the vote by mail and a Judicial Watch lawsuit settlement about California voter roll clean up.

The records were obtained in response to Judicial Watch’s California Public Records Act (CPRA) requests to the Office of the California Secretary of State for records related to the Office of Election Cybersecurity’s database of social media posts; communications with social media companies; and other social media related records regarding the 2020 elections. Judicial Watch filed the requests after a December 2020 report surfaced that the state agency was surveilling, tracking, and seeking to censor the speech of Americans:

The Office of Election Cybersecurity in the California Secretary of State’s office monitored and tracked social media posts, decided if they were misinformation, stored the posts in an internal database coded by threat level, and on 31 different occasions requested posts be removed. In 24 cases, the social media companies agreed and either took down the posts or flagged them as misinformation, according to Jenna Dresner, senior public information officer for the Office of Election Cybersecurity.

“We don’t take down posts, that is not our role to play,” Dresner said. “We alert potential sources of misinformation to the social media companies and we let them make that call based on community standards they created.”

On September 24, 2020, a California Secretary of State chartlists a video from Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton and falsely alleges:

Head of conservative group Judicial Watch Hosts video alleging Democrats benefit from incorrect voter rolls and ballot collection.

The Secretary of State’s office details its communication with YouTube: “We wanted to flag this YouTube video because it misleads community members about elections or other civic processes and misrepresents the safety and security of mail-in ballots.” The chart quotes Fitton describing Judicial Watch’s statement about its federal lawsuit settlement with Los Angeles County that will require it to clean up voter rolls and how a Michigan court “changed the rules” on ballot deadlines and ballot harvesting. (The controversial decision was overturned in October 2020.)

The document shows that California state officials contacted YouTube directly to remove the video on September 24, 2020, and that YouTube seemed to respond by deleting the video on September 27, 2020.

On September 11, 2020, outside consultant Zeke Sandoval, of the SKDK communications firm, provides the Secretary of State’s Office a “Misinformation Daily Briefing,” which again targets Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton:

Trump tweeted, “The big Unsolicited Ballot States should give it up NOW, before it is too late, and ask people to go to the Polling Booths and, like always before, VOTE. Otherwise, MAYHEM!!! Solicited Ballots (absentee) are OK,” and Twitter was quick to fact check and shared a link with info about how voting by mail is safe and secure. Viral reply on Twitter from Tom Fitton asserting, “Mailing 51 million ballots to those who haven’t asked for increases risk of voter fraud and voter intimidation!”

A 30-page “Misinformation Tracking Sheet” lists social media posts that the office disagrees with and has asked social media companies to remove.

In an internal email on January 12, 2021, Deputy Secretary of State and Chief Communications Officer Paula Valleemails Chief Counsel Steve Reyes and Jenna Dresner in the Office of Cybersecurity, as well as Press Secretary Sam Mahood stating that she is uncomfortable with CalMattersreporter Fred Brewster’s questions about the office’s tracking and censoring efforts:

Hi Steve – Please see below – the reporter at Cal Matters who PRA’d us is doing a follow-up story. We asked him to send us his questions. I am not necessarily comfortable with his line of questions and the additional doors that this will open. I want to get your feedback I would simply like to give him a statement about what our goal is and leave it at that. Thoughts?

Brewster’s questions, which include concerns from citizens who were targeted by the “Misinformation Tracker,” were sent on January 12, 2021:

I reached out to the users on page 7 and page 21 of the Misinformation Tracker request I received. Both individuals wanted to know how their posts ended up being labeled misinformation and how, given their relatively small following, they came to the attention of the Office of Election Cybersecurity?

Another user named “DC O’Bryan” had his post taken down (page 5 of the Misinformation Tracker). In an email, you highlight a report sent to the state that says, “I don’t know if this is hot air meant to provoke. If it is, a call from an official might get the point across that you don’t joke about election fraud.” Was O’Bryan called to confirm that his post was a joke?

How does the Office of Election Cybersecurity differentiate between parody and satire and misinformation?

Did CISA, Facebook, or any other partners provide guidance on how to spot and define misinformation? If someone has their posts in the Misinformation Tracker, are there plans to contact those individuals and is there a way for them to petition the state to delete them?

The Secretary of State’s Office emails Facebook and Twitter on April 25,2019, with requests from the Office to remove tweets and posts for what they have labeled “misinformation.”

The office emails Facebook, attempting to set up a call to discuss removing future posts. This 15-minute call is with “new Facebook contact for social media reporting: Javier Hernandez, Politics & Government Outreach” in order to discuss how the office will report posts to Facebook. In the email, Facebook outlines its goals to directly work with “electoral authorities in every state” so that they can “report instances of voter suppression on Facebook directly to our team, so [Facebook] can look at them quickly and remove them from the site.”

On December 31, 2019, after the Secretary of State’s office reports a tweet to Support@Twitter.com, Kevin Kane, a Twitter representative, replies and offers his direct contact for the Office’s future needs in removing posts.

In a September 21, 2020, email chain with the subject line “elections issue,” Jenna Dresner in the Secretary of State’s Office of Cybersecurity writes to “Cristina and team” at Facebook at 11:43 a.m.: “We want to flag this Instagram post.”

The reply comes from Facebook Community Operations: “Thank you for your report. We have reviewed the … content and can confirm that the content has been removed …” At 12:53 pm. Dresner writes to Press Secretary Sam Mahood, Social Media Coordinator Akilah Jones and others, “Post from this morning was removed (and fast!) Akilah we can update tracker.”

In an October 28, 2020, email, Jones writes to Flores at Facebook and CCs Dresner that a post, which was from a user named @Screenplaywale, “voters are being asked to gerrymander and voter suppress their ‘trump supporting father’s ballots.’”

In an email chain on September 14, 2020, titled “Election Issue” the office internally complains about how long it takes Facebook to remove a post and how to speed up this process.

Mahood writes to Dresner: “It looks like it took Facebook 2 weeks to respond to Chris. This is way too long, we should raise to FB and make sure we know best method to report posts.” Dresner responds: “Sure – I’m 98% sure this is the one you chased with an email directly to our FB contacts which resulted in it taken down that day. I can confirm that process works for the future?”

On August 22, 2019, Maria Benson, director of communications for the National Association of Secretaries of State emails the communications directors for Secretaries of State offices that Twitter confirmed that they streamlined their process for government officials to report “misinformation:”

Great news—Twitter is now on-boarding states into their mis/disinformation partner support portal! Once on-boarded, you will be able to directly report mis/disinformation instead of having to submit it to me first….” [Emphasis in original]

Benson also gives contact information for Facebook and Google complaints, and says: “If any of the items you reported do not get prompt attention, please let me know and I can also reach out the companies.”

On September 24, 2019, The California Secretary of State’s office confirms that it plans to participate in Facebook’s “misinformation” training which is a review from Facebook on “monitoring guidelines for reporting misinformation” and teaches participants how to use the direct reporting channel Facebook opened for them.

On October 1, 2020, Benson forwards information from Twitter about their training to directly remove posts they label as misinformation to the Secretary of State’s office. This is described by Twitter as: “training on creative and effective content strategies on Twitter in advance of the U.S. Election,” as well as “onboarding state and local election officials onto Twitter’s Partner Support Portal.” This portal is described as, “a dedicated way for critical stakeholders – like you – to flag concerns directly to Twitter.”

“These new documents suggest a conspiracy against the First Amendment rights of Americans by the California Secretary of State, the Biden campaign operation, and Big Tech,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. “These documents blow up the big lie that Big Tech censorship is ‘private’ – as the documents show collusion between a whole group of government officials in multiple states to suppress speech about election controversies.”

 

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Stephen Miller’s America First Legal Foundation sues Biden administration for racial discrimination

A new conservative legal group has filed a lawsuit against the Biden administration, accusing it of racial discrimination in the distribution of COVID-19 aid.

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Stephen Miller-led conservative group sues Biden administration for racial discrimination

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A new conservative legal group has filed a lawsuit against the Biden administration, accusing it of racial discrimination in the distribution of COVID-19 aid.

Stephen Miller, a former senior adviser to then-President Trump, said Monday that his America First Legal Foundation has sued to prevent President Biden from prioritizing minority farmers and ranchers for aid in the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Act.

In “the American Rescue Act … they award farm aid for farmers who’ve been hurt by this pandemic based on skin color. That is fundamentally un-American,” Mr. Miller said in an appearance on Newsmax TV’s “Spicer & Co.” program.

“I would argue and my organization would argue that that violates federal nondiscrimination rules,” he said. “We are suing to say that this lawless policy needs to be enjoined.”

Mr. Miller said the lawsuit was filed earlier Monday evening in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas, formally by Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller against U.S. Agriculture Secretary Thomas Vilsack.

The massive plan has a $5 billion provision to compensate black farmers, which Mr. Miller argued is racial discrimination on its face.

“Millions of people were hurt by this pandemic, millions of people were hurt as a result of the closures, the shutdowns, the disruptions to our lives. And when it comes to getting financial aid, it shouldn’t matter what race or ethnicity you are,” he said.

“You can’t make a more equal country, you can’t make a more unified country if we split and divide based on race,” he concluded.

 

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Software Firm Rejects Woke Workplace, Saying ‘We Are Not A Social Impact Company’ | The Daily Wire

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Basecamp is an expert in cultivating well-running workplaces, selling software for efficient project management and publishing prescient books on creating "calm" and effective corporate cultures.

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Basecamp, a firm known for cultivating efficient and positive professional environments, made an announcement Monday that was more notable for the fact that, in 2021, it needed to be said: The project-management software company declared that it was a company focused on developing project management software, not an entity that should try to shape Americans’ political opinions, engineer its employees’ personal lives, or take positions on unrelated public debates.

The company’s co-founders laid out their refined vision for the company, including cutting ties with things it has done in the past. The changes reject the mission creep that has increasingly overtaken large companies in Silicon Valley and elsewhere, and return to the product-focused ethos that fueled the company when they founded it in 2004. They are:

1. No more societal and political discussions in the workplace during company time, on company communications channels.

“It’s a major distraction. It saps our energy, and redirects our dialog towards dark places,” CEO Jason Fried wrote.

Co-founder David Heinemeier Hansson, the company’s chief technology officer and creator of the populator web development framework Ruby on Rails, elaborated:

Basecamp should be a place where employees can come to work with colleagues of all backgrounds and political convictions without having to deal with heavy political or societal debates unconnected to that work.
You shouldn’t have to wonder if staying out of it means you’re complicit, or stepping into it means you’re a target. That is difficult enough outside of work, but almost impossible at work.

By trying to have the debates around such incredibly sensitive societal politics inside the company, we’re setting ourselves up for strife, with little chance of actually changing anyone’s mind.

We also like to tell ourselves that having these discussions with the whole company is “healthy”. I used to think that too, but I no longer do. I think it’s become ever more stressful, unnerving, and counterproductive. …
Next, Basecamp, as a company, is no longer going to weigh-in publicly on societal political affairs, outside those that directly connect to the business.

2. No more paternalistic benefits.

The second change involves the company’s role in encouraging or discouraging various activities in employees’ personal lives through ancillary job benefits. Instead, Basecamp will try a different approach: using those funds to pay its employees money that they can spend as they choose. Fried wrote:

For years we’ve offered a fitness benefit, a wellness allowance, a farmer’s market share, and continuing education allowances. They felt good at the time, but we’ve had a change of heart. It’s none of our business what you do outside of work, and it’s not Basecamp’s place to encourage certain behaviors — regardless of good intention.

Other changes involve freeing the company to fulfill its mission by cutting down bureaucracy, ceasing involving numerous people as “stakeholders,” and not fixating on negatives.

3. No more committees.
4. No more lingering or dwelling on past decisions.
5. No more 360 reviews.


All of the changes serve the final, simple edict:

6. No forgetting what we do here.

We make project management, team communication, and email software. We are not a social impact company. Our impact is contained to what we do and how we do it.

We don’t have to solve deep social problems, chime in publicly whenever the world requests our opinion on the major issues of the day, or get behind one movement or another with time or treasure. These are all important topics, but they’re not our topics at work — they’re not what we collectively do here.

When employees are at work at Basecamp, their full attention should be focused on one thing: building the best possible tools that customers want, Fried wrote.

The company has expertise in helping organizations run smoothly. Its flagship project management product, also called Basecamp, is designed to help workers keep organized, create to-do lists, and track progress on projects, but without too much overhead or clutter.

In 2013, Fried and Hansson published a book called “Rework,” positing that much of what corporate culture does is wrong. Instead of conducting incessant analyses, filling out paperwork, and holding meetings, a small, dedicated team should focus on building great products. The rest will fall into place.

In 2013, they published a book — which proved prescient — titled “Remote: Office Not Required,” detailing its success with allowing employees to work from home

In 2018, they published “It Doesn’t Have To Be Crazy At Work,” which laid out their focus on creating what they call “the calm company,” as opposed to overworked, negative, stress-inducing workspaces.

That, too, proved prescient, as companies have increasingly found themselves fending off acrimony from all sides after indulging a small minority of employees who insist on using workplaces as a forum for hashing out outside personal and political issues. They often find that such activists can never be satisfied, and by attempting to satisfy them, their demands only grow — even as the company moves ever further from its actual mission.

Here are some examples from the last week alone:

• A Conde Nast cookbook publication said it will no longer publish recipes involving beef — presumably severely diminishing its pool of content — after some Democrats highlighted the environmental impact of cows.
• Software behemoth Oracle — which is considering a major investment in Tennessee, where it will enjoy a favorable tax environment — has some thoughts on the finer points of high school athletic competitions involving transgender minors, seemingly targeting that state. In response, Governor Bill Lee (R) reminded: “Organizations have opportunities to weigh in on the legislative process but ultimately, Tennesseans, through their elected representatives, determine the law in our state.”
• Bicycle company Peloton laid out a style guide parsing the origins of colloquialisms, deeming the phrase “grandfathered in” racist.
• Employees of book giant Simon & Schuster demanded that the publishing company not publish books, at least those written by anyone connected to Donald Trump. Publishing former Vice President Mike Pence, they wrote, “puts all of our BIPOC, women, LGBTQ+, disabled, neurodivergent, immigrant, working-class employees, and the greater bookseller/reviewer/reading community in immediate and long term danger.” The ratcheted-up demands came only a week after CEO Jonathan Karp gave in to an earlier pressure campaign from employees by refusing to distribute a book by an embattled police officer.

 

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America’s New Justice System, Funded by Soros and Zuckerberg

Megadonors are funding the elections of progressive district attorneys across the country, and perhaps a crime wave, too.

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America’s New Justice System, Funded By Soros And Zuckerberg

Megadonors are funding the elections of progressive district attorneys across the country, and perhaps a crime wave, too.

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George Soros funding a new wave of radically lenient district attorneys across America to remake its justice system at the county level sounds like a right-wing conspiracy theory, but it’s true. He explained why he was going to do it in his recent book In Defense of Open Society. His commitment to the program was announced by the ACLU in 2015. And the financial record of the endeavor has been tracked by dozens of news outlets over the past several years.

The 90-year-old financier and megadonor laid out his case for nationwide criminal justice reform in the second chapter of In Defense of Open Society, itself an updated version of a 2012 essay. He cited such measures as one of the major objectives in his America-related philanthropy agenda.

In November 2014, Soros’s Open Society Foundation gave $50 million to the ACLU’s Campaign to End Mass Incarceration. The ACLU put out a press release about the donation, restating their commitment to cutting U.S. incarceration rates in half by 2020 in what would be “the most ambitious effort to end mass incarceration in American history.”

Shortly after making this donation, Soros began steadily contributing large sums to progressive candidates for district attorney (D.A.) positions all over the country. He has spent more than $18 million on left-wing D.A.s since 2015 with mostly successful results (only seven losses out of 29 races).

Meanwhile, dozens of “bail funds”—groups that pay the bails of suspects accused of crimes—made names for themselves during the Black Lives Matter protests after the killing of George Floyd. Kamala Harris promoted one such group, the Minnesota Freedom Fund, helping its annual revenue go from $100,000 in 2019 to $35 million in 2020.

Other big names include the Bail Project, which receives funding from Borealis Philanthropy, and the Fund for Fair and Just Policing, which is a project of Tides Advocacy and was founded with the support of the powerful private foundations Atlantic Philanthropies and Soros’s Open Society Foundations.

Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan have started giving grants to bail funds and prosecutor reform groups, too. In the 2019–2020 grant period, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) gave $1 million to the Tides Center’s project Fair and Just Prosecution to “promote thought leadership for elected district attorneys.” The group trains future D.A.s by hosting things like summer clerkship programs in prosecutors’ offices for law students.

CZI’s recent giving to Tides Center criminal justice reform outfits included $610,000 to Californians for Safety and Justice, $500,000 to the Justice Collaborative, and $750,000 to the Public Rights Project. In January 2021, CZI boasted it had granted over $164 million to criminal justice reform advocacy groups just before announcing a new and independent organization, the Justice Accelerator Fund, to which it is entrusting $350 million.

The Results
The consequences of all these efforts to re-engineer the U.S. justice system at the local level are as one would expect.

As multiple data sets confirm, 2020 was a record year for violent crime.

Preliminary FBI data show that murder rates went up everywhere in America in 2020, and not by a little—by 24.7 percent, if measured nationwide. Criminal justice expert John Roman said 2020’s surge “is the largest increase in violence we’ve seen since 1960, when we started collecting formal crime statistics.”

In Philadelphia, homicides have gone up 29 percent since April 2020, making 2020 the city’s most violent year in over three decades. Larry Krasner, Philadelphia’s district attorney who received almost $1.7 million from Soros in 2017, blames other forces, especially COVID-19 lockdowns closing hosts of programs—including public school itself—that normally keep young men off the streets and out of trouble. “I do not believe that people who have had the wisdom to elect progressive prosecutors all over the country, and increasingly, all of a sudden are going to get the stupids,” Krasner said, arguing that the universal rise in murder refutes critics’ “scapegoating” of new progressive D.A.s.
While Krasner is right that the spike in murder rates happened across the country’s cities in 2020, not just in cities with progressive D.A.s, the question remains whether D.A.s like himself have had a hand in the severity of the uptick.

Local Democratic ward leaders who have refused to endorse Krasner for election maintain he is at least partly to blame.

Krasner’s argument would also hold more weight if 2020 murders were the only factor under consideration.

Statistics were indicating rising crime rates in the new progressive attorneys’ districts before the pandemic. A June 2020 report from the Law Enforcement Legal Defense Fund found shootings had gone up 18 percent in Krasner’s district since he took office. Overall violent crime rose 5 percent, and robberies went up 7 percent. John Creuzot of Dallas County, Texas, whose conviction rates are significantly lower than his predecessor’s, oversaw a 15 percent rise in violent crimes, a 27 percent spike in homicides, and a 13 percent rise in auto thefts in 2019.

Under Joe Gonzalez, Bexar County (San Antonio), Texas, saw guilty verdicts for 31 percent fewer sex assault cases, 21 percent fewer aggravated assault or attempted murder cases, and 9 percent fewer robbery cases.

Under Kim Foxx, state’s attorney for Cook County (Chicago), Illinois, 20 percent fewer robbery cases and 9 percent fewer rape and sex crime cases resulted in guilty verdicts. Overall, Foxx’s reign has led to a 27 percent decrease in guilty verdicts and a 54 percent increase in dropped or dismissed cases.

Creuzot, Gonzalez, and Foxx all received funding from Soros’s prosecutor PACs.

Crime and Poverty
Whether liberal prosecutors are to blame for the surge in crime cannot be absolutely proven; voters in local districts will decide that question for themselves. What is certain is that artificially lowering prosecution rates without addressing the underlying sociological factors that cause crime is not a real solution.

The crime continues to happen, punished or not, while the rest of the population suffers from the crime and from the poverty rates and social decay that produce the crime. A resultant crime wave may cause a reactionary political victory nationwide and a re-legitimization of tough policing in the short term, but the calls for justice against that hard policing will always return. In both instances the factors underlying crime are unaddressed. We have seen this time and time again.

It seems that progressives rarely link incarceration rates to poverty anymore.

Judging by much of mainstream rhetoric, contemporary thinking on that matter holds that racism alone causes the phenomenon. It says that high crime rates in urban areas are a racist illusion, our laws are racist, and arrests are made arbitrarily and selectively. Therefore, if we were to fix our “racist culture” and put an end to our “racist justice system,” the whole problem would be solved and everything would be fine. This is typical of late progressivism, as it ceaselessly undercuts material reality in favor of narratives about prejudice.

Politicians attempted to reduce said poverty through the federal welfare programs launched during LBJ’s War on Poverty. But economic inequality in America has increased since then. Instead of focusing on the working class and the political power of labor, these programs focused on combining the rhetoric of identity with the welfare capitalism of postwar Keynesianism, themes we see dominating the political landscape today.

This allowed for jobs to be outsourced overseas, unions to be crushed, and monopolies to form all under the watch of a “progressive” ideological hegemony in the federal government. Rather than empowering the laboring classes, progressivism morphed into an ideological justification for placating poor masses, always growing in number, while allowing the oligarchy to pillage the country of every possible means by which the people could free themselves from poverty.

Hiring armies of cops to mercilessly oppress deindustrialized, impoverished regions of the country is not exactly an intelligent solution either. To lower incarceration rates and put an end to the private prison industry (whose lobbyists influence legislation that ensures their supply of inmates will not run dry), the political situation would need to allow for a reawakening of the American working and poor populations through robust economic security and the ability to lead less stressful, stable lives.

This would require unorthodox economic policies across the government to reindustrialize the country, transform the material existence of both the urban and the rural poor, and curb the power of the wealthy who perpetuate this obscene system. But as these solutions cut against the ideological line of the rulers, and are pettily hoarded by hostile political camps, they are unlikely to emerge under current conditions.

Soros, Zuckerberg
Billionaires like Soros and Zuckerberg are merely the latest actors to play the role of facilitating this tired progressive effort. But philanthropic capitalists like them do not have any kind of corrective oversight system that could redress their philanthropic efforts based on their results, so by nature they cannot solve the problem and will only make life more chaotic for everybody involved.

The chapter from Soros’s book cited above provides interesting insight into the minds of billionaire philanthropists. In it, he raises the question of why selfish individuals like himself would spend their money on such “selfless” philanthropic efforts. His answer is that it absolves moral guilt incurred from their egotistical business practices. Nevertheless, he complains that “financial repression” after 2008 has made it more difficult for international hedge fund managers to make money, while the demand for hedge fund managers’ philanthropy has increased—insisting all the while that it is only through the generosity of plutocrats that society can improve.

American progressivism, like all unthinking pragmatisms, tries to find can-do practical solutions to problems engendered by the very system whose constraints it conforms to—like trying to have the devil put out the fires of hell.

 

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Woke Fascism: Securing the Democrats' Monopoly of Power in Perpetuity

Far-right mobs are very similar in tactics—silencing, intimidating, and destroying—although their targets vary. Brownshirt fascist thugs target Jews; Muslim jihadi mobs target infidels; Black Lives Ma...

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Woke Fascism: Securing the Democrats' Monopoly of Power in Perpetuity

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Far-right mobs are very similar in tactics—silencing, intimidating, and destroying—although their targets vary. Brownshirt fascist thugs target Jews; Muslim jihadi mobs target infidels; Black Lives Matter thugs target whites; and Ku Klux Klan mobs target blacks. They are all fueled by hate, and all aim ultimately at destruction.

Far-left mobs, such as antifa and other anarchists and communists share the same tactics of silencing, intimidating, and destroying, but target the political and economic order. But as they become more and more extreme, the left and the right do not become more different, they become more similar. They are not opposite far ends of a continuum, but rather the left and right are sides of a circle which, as they become more extreme and farther from democracy, converge at oppressive despotism and totalitarianism.

The Democrat Party has adopted both BLM and antifa mobs as their militias, and have validated, funded, and defended them as they destroy Democrat-controlled cities, which were once American cities, and ensured their success by constraining, defunding, and now persecuting police who have traditionally been charged with maintaining order and public safety.

The Democrat mobs in practice act the opposite of what they claim to represent. Antifa means “anti-fascist,” and their object is anarchy, so that differs from the racism of BLM and other fascist mobs, but their tactics are exactly the same. In the streets, there is no difference between antifa and fascist thugs. BLM claims to represent the interests of blacks, but their jihad against the police makes blacks less safe and more insecure, and subject to even greater levels of black-on-black violence, as we have seen in Democrat inner cities as shootings and murders spike shockingly, and even children take to stabbing one another. Blacks know this, which is why they overwhelmingly support a police presence in their communities. Eighty-one percent of blacks want to maintain or increase police presence.

The Democrat Party jihad against the police is part of its narrative about America’s “systemic racism,” and is based, as is the entire narrative, upon a series of blatant and shameless lies. Democrats and self-proclaimed Marxist BLM race activists claim that all black Americans are at risk of being murdered by police. In 2018, 61.5 million residents of the U.S. had contact with the police. According to the Washington Post, in 2018, police shot and killed 990 individuals, of whom the majority were white.

The Democrat Washington Post goes on to emphasize that “Black Americans are shot at a disproportionate rate. They account for less than 13 percent of the U.S. population, but are killed by police at more than twice the rate of White Americans.” What the Post avoids mentioning is that black Americans commit crimes disproportionately, including murder, at three times the rate of their percentage of the population. As the job of the police is to stop criminal activity, and there is a higher percentage of black criminals than the percentage of blacks in the general population, it is to be expected that black contacts with police would be disproportionate, and that violent conflicts would be at a higher level than blacks’ percent of the population. There is no evidence of racism here, just police doing their job to stop criminals, whatever their race. Once again, the Democrat media massages the news to conform to its narrative.

The Democrat anti-police narrative, seen in response to the Columbus, Ohio, police shooting of a knife-wielding assailant about to stab a victim, ignores the crime, has only sympathy for the criminal, and condemns the police action as racist, even though, in this case, it saved a girl’s life. This is one strand in the more general Democrat narrative that America is systemically racist, with all whites, but especially the 75 million “deplorable” Trump voters, oppressing all blacks, and the blacks all being victims of white racism. This is a bit rich coming from the Democrats, historically the party of segregation, Jim Crow laws, and the Ku Klux Klan.

But the Democrats see a racial divide and race conflict as beneficial to their electoral chances. Around 80% of blacks vote Democrat, although Democrats have served them poorly, while too many whites, in their eyes, vote Republican. In order to advance their power, Democrats have pushed the “systemic racism” narrative to undermine America’s 70% supermajority of whites by convincing them that whites are guilty of racism, and America is evil now and was always evil. The Democrats claim that they will fix all of this, as long as they remain in power. This Democrat narrative is self-serving and an egregious lie.

America is less racist than ever, and perhaps less racist than any country in world history. The surveys show that personal attitudes are not racist, as do voting patterns that elect blacks to the highest offices, and as does the huge spike in interracial marriages. If all of that were not enough, for fifty years “affirmative action” has given special preferences and privileges to blacks in education, business, and government.

The Democrat narrative is that statistical disparities among racial groups in regard to education, occupation, and economics, particularly the underrepresentation of blacks, is proof that blacks are subject to discrimination. No evidence of this discrimination is ever offered, and so this claim is without substantiation. What we do know is that statistical disparities can result from well-documented differential individual preferences, educational accomplishment, family structure, and community culture. These are causes of statistical disparities. But Democrats insist that for “racial justice” there must be “equity,” which means equal results among all racial groups, and they are prepared to bring this about force majeure

If you have noticed that all of these claims by Democrats appear to be monstrous lies, you should not be surprised. Partisan lying seems to be the primary strategy of the Democrat Party. In the last four years, the Democrats, echoed by the Democrat media and enabled by the FBI, have championed the Russia collusion hoax, an outright attack on the peaceful transfer of power and the duly elected Republican administration based on fake documents initiated and paid for by the Democrats. Then the Democrats conjured up outrageous, evidence-free accusations against a Republican nominee for the Supreme Court.

After the Democrats loosed their BLM and antifa militias on their cities, the Democrat media, which is just about all of the media, repeatedly characterized the riots, looting, arson, assaults on police, and murder of civilians as “mostly peaceful protests.” Paul Krugman, Nobel Prize-winning economist, and Democrat mouthpiece, in April 2021 said, “GOP supporters believe that rampaging mobs burned and looted major cities — somehow without the people actually living in those cities noticing.” Krugman is a latter-day Bagdad Bob, denying what was plainly visible to anyone not blinded by partisan loyalty.

The Democrats also claim that the 2020 presidential election was clean and fair, ignoring the dirty tricks and illegal manipulations that they so favor in their urban machines.

Finally, Democrats proclaimed that the riot at the capitol in protest against the stolen election was an “insurrection” attempting to overthrow the government, and that all participants and all 75 million Trump voters were “domestic terrorists” whom the security agencies must suppress. No lie is so great or so unlikely that the Democrats will not adopt it if it appears to offer them a partisan advantage.

Fortunately for the Democrats, they are not alone with their media and security agencies. The other American elites have all thrown their support behind the Democrats and their strategy of racial division and suppression of the majority of Americans. Big tech now secures the Democrat narrative by censoring and banning any contrary opinions, no matter how authoritative, as in banning of doctors who oppose the futile and destructive lockdowns, or who had direct knowledge of successful medications that had been blackballed because some conservatives spoke in favor of them. Major newspaper stories, such as the New York Post story on Hunter Biden’s influence-peddling scheme, have been shut out from social media because big tech thought it might harm Joe Biden’s election chances.

Big business, Hollywood, professional sports, and big finance are all with the Democrat Party. Big business disgraced itself by condemning the very moderate Georgia voting law to ensure secure legal voting because “President” Biden called it “Jim Crow on steroids,” historically highly inaccurate, and thus a gross and despicable lie. Hollywood and professional sports, like big business, are actively pro-China, because of the great profits to be made in its huge consumer market. For these international enterprises, ideas such as “America first” is anathema. Keeping Americans divided and hating one another through “woke” propaganda suits these companies very nicely. They are quite happy to sell out Americans, as they have done when they sent whole industries to China, to mouth Chinese Communist Party slogans, and to censor any report or story that might offend the CCP.

Finally, but far from last in importance, is our Marxist educational system. As the font of “woke” extremism, universities have nurtured traditional Marxists who, having lost patience with the quiescent working class, turned to identity politics to fuel class struggle and revolution. Feminists adopted the class struggle but replaced the war of the proletariat against the capitalists with the war of females against males. Gays adopted the same model, gays against heteros. And race activists framed the struggle as the war against “people of color” by whites. Academic Marxists redefined racism so that only whites could be racist, and replaced equality among individuals with “equity,” equal results for all collective gender, sexuality, and race categories, and redefined “inclusion” as institutionalized segregation. This noxious brew of gender and race hate, special privileges for preferred categories of people, spread to the schools, thanks to radical faculties of education, and beyond to the media, big tech, big business, entertainment, government, and the military. Black Lives Matter and the Marxist left of the Democrat Party combine the anti-capitalist class struggle with the anti-white identity politics class struggle, with the goal of transforming America into a socialist state in which everyone depends entirely on the government.

The fascist societies of the mid-twentieth century combined a monopoly of power with suppression of opposing views and opinions. A monopoly of power was supported by the oligarchical alliance of the elites of education, the media, business, finance, and the military. The Democrat Party is very close to that fascist ideal, and their current initiatives—to impose rules of voting guaranteeing fixed elections, to add fake Democrat states to insure majorities, to open borders to admit millions of new illegal Democrat voters, and to pack the Supreme Court so that the Constitution is no longer a constraint—are aimed at securing their monopoly of power in perpetuity. The suppression of opposing views and opinions is going full throttle in the media, big tech, and schools and universities; any deviation from the Marxist narrative leads to the cancellation of the “racists,” “white supremacists,” and “internal terrorists” who express such views.

The only mid-twentieth-century fascist feature missing is nationalism, for the Biden Democrat fascists are full-scale internationalists, especially in their alliances with China. So this is not the old nationalist fascism; it is the new internationalist fascism. The new woke fascism.

 

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DHS Begins Internal Investigation to Identify Dangerous Employees with Patriotic Perspectives, aka "Domestic Extremists" - The Last Refuge

As the notification from DHS explains, the investigation is already underway

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DHS Begins Internal Investigation to Identify Dangerous Employees with Patriotic Perspectives, aka “Domestic Extremists”

April 26, 2021 | Sundance |

The internal investigation by JoeBama’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) serves two purposes. [Memo Link Here] First, it will identify anyone with nationalist outlooks and/or ‘America First’ ideology; in essence it will identify JoeBama’s political enemies (those that didn’t vote for Biden).

Second, it will send a chill through the ranks within all DHS agencies to quiet any dissent to the approved leftist approach (the DHS political agenda). This is essentially putting DHS through the same process previously deployed against the FBI during Robert Mueller and James Comey’s terms. Eliminate any and all opposition to the JoeBama agenda.

(Memo Link – DHS Announcement and Notification)
As the notification from DHS explains, the investigation is already underway (See Here) “At the direction of the Secretary, a cross-Departmental working group comprised of senior officials will immediately begin a comprehensive review of how to best prevent, detect, and respond to threats related to domestic violent extremism within DHS. This internal team, which will be led by the Department’s Chief Security Officer, will produce a report with recommendations for the Secretary on how best to identify and respond to threats.”

It doesn’t take a deep political thinker to understand exactly what DHS is attempting to do. They need to cement as many leftists, communists and radical left-wing perspectives as quickly as possible. To accomplish this they need to remove any internal opposition to the plan.

Remember, DHS runs just about everything you encounter now with federal law enforcement, including Transportation Safety Administration. This internal purge is needed in order to support a fully weaponized police state. [Insert COVID passport here]

They have already announced similar programs being deployed against Americans; and the FBI is currently promoting the incarceration of anyone suspected of attending the January 6th DC rally. This effort by DHS is more of the same…

And don’t forget the United States Postal Service is also operating their own investigation into Americans, using their technical capability and their own police force… Now tie today’s announcement with: “DHS Preparing to Use Private Contractors to “Scour Public Data and Social Media” To Compile Dissident Citizens for Watch List and No Fly Lists“…. what is described in the Yahoo article about the USPS; and what is described in the DHS memo; is almost identical to what we previously outlined.

Yahoo – The law enforcement arm of the U.S. Postal Service has been quietly running a program that tracks and collects Americans’ social media posts, including those about planned protests, according to a document obtained by Yahoo News.

The details of the surveillance effort, known as iCOP, or Internet Covert Operations Program, have not previously been made public. The work involves having analysts trawl through social media sites to look for what the document describes as “inflammatory” postings and then sharing that information across government agencies. (read more)

Now compare that description to what we previously outlined:

Treehouse – The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is now getting ready to hire public companies, individual contractors outside government, to scour public data and social media in order to provide information for the new “domestic terror watch lists.” From the description it appears DHS is going to pay “big tech” (Google, Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, SnapChat, Twitter, etc.), via contracts, to hire and organize internal monitoring teams to assist the government by sending information on citizens they deem “dangerous.” (read more)
The Treehouse citation included the following NBC article.

[…] DHS is planning to expand its relationships with companies that scour public data for intelligence, one of the senior officials said, and also to better harness the vast trove of data it already collects on Americans, including travel and commercial data through Customs and Border Protection, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the Coast Guard, the Secret Service and other DHS components. (read more)

…It’s all part of the same program, with the same intents.

 

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Redacted ruling reveals federal court approved FBI’s warrantless search of data

A redacted ruling from a federal court revealed that between mid-2019 and early 2020, the FBI sought information without proper justification, including conducting queries into data containing American communications.

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Redacted ruling reveals federal court approved FBI's warrantless search of data
A redacted ruling from a federal court revealed that between mid-2019 and early 2020, the FBI sought information without proper justification, including conducting queries into data containing American communications.

Hannah NightingaleThe Post Millennial
April 27, 2021 12:41 PM

A redacted ruling from a federal court revealed that between mid-2019 and early 2020, the FBI sought information without proper justification, including conducting queries into data containing American communications, The Washington Post reports.

The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court presiding judge James E. Boasberg said these violations came before improvements to the querying system and training program were implemented.

"While the Court is concerned about the apparent widespread violations, it lacks sufficient information at this time” to assess the sufficiency of changes to FBI systems and training, said Boasberg.

"The Court is willing to again conclude that the... [FBI’s] procedures meet statutory and Fourth Amendment requirements," he continued.

This latest violation came in the form of an FBI specialist conducting background investigations on individuals looking to take part in an FBI "Citizens Academy" program that would help create an understanding of the role bureau takes within the community. Also looked at as part of the 124 queries were those who entered field offices to perform repairs and related services, and those who were looking to report tips and crimes.

This new finding marks at least the third case of FBI rules breached in recent memory, bringing analysts to question whether the issue is systemic.
The FBI queried data from more than 70,000 email addresses and phone numbers in October 2018, and once again broke privacy rules in December 2019 by reportedly searching for information on a job candidate, a crime victim, and potential sources.

"We can continue playing compliance whack-a-mole,” said senior Cato Institute fellow Julian Sanchez. "But at this point, it’s reasonable to ask whether this sort of large-scale collection on a ‘general warrant’ model is inherently prone to these problems in a way that resists robust and timely oversight.”

"We’ve seen this movie before," Sanchez continued. "The court wags its finger at systemic noncompliance but ultimately decides to give the FBI yet another chance."

Boasberg reportedly found that the Justice Department's national security division reported numerous incidents involving the FBI conducting several queries into Americans for criminal evidence without obtaining court permission first, which under a 2018 Congress ruling they are required to do.

At the heart of the issue is the law Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, or FISA, in which the government obtains communications from tech companies for the purposes of foreign intelligence. It also aids in government investigations that look into foreign terrorism, nuclear proliferation and espionage.

 

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A Rigged System Can’t Last

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A Rigged System Can’t Last

Kurt Schlichter
|Posted: Apr 26, 2021 12:01 AM

The opinions expressed by columnists are their own and do not necessarily represent the views of Townhall.com.

Source: AP Photo/The Columbus Dispatch, Jonathan Quilter

You can’t win, but that’s all part of the plan.

Reason, rules, processes – these are the foundations of a free society, which is why the cultural left is so dead set against them. A citizen needs to be able to rely on clear rules and fixed processes to vindicate his rights in order to have any rights. But the rights of free citizens – your rights – are an obstacle to the Lil’ Stalins who yearn to rule over us. If the liberal establishment can create a society where you can’t appeal to facts, evidence, or law, then – until the peasants' revolt – its poobahs can wield undisputed, undiluted authority. That’s their dream, a country where you live in terror of them because you can never be sure that what you are doing or failing to do is suddenly going to be criminalized.

Take the whole imbroglio about Stabby Girl, the teen psycho in Ohio who decided to filet a girl in front of a cop. Not surprisingly, to people who aren’t idiots, the officer ventilated her, saving the life of the innocent victim. But then, of course, the establishment and the media – including America’s #1 Matlock superfan – weighed in on how stopping this future felon was racist racism of racismness. Normal people were baffled, but then, it’s only if you haven’t been paying attention that you might think that non-criminal black lives matter to Black Lives Matter.

Now, let me put on my lawyer hat – no, I’m not your lawyer and consult one in your jurisdiction before you do stuff. There’s this basic Anglo-American premise in law – I know we’re supposed to pretend that our political and legal culture didn’t come down to us the British Isles but it did – that you can use deadly force in the defense of yourself or another when some bad actor is trying to cause death or great bodily harm. This is not subject to rational or honest dispute. With some minor tweaks, this is generally the rule and has been for over a thousand years. So, leaving aside that this is not only morally proper but a moral imperative, we have a clear law saying you can shoot someone to stop him, her, or xir from killing someone else.

Now, we take the facts (as revealed by the evidence) and apply them to the law. And here we have some pretty remarkable facts, all documented by unimpeachable evidence. Ma’Khia the Knife was caught on candid body camera in mid-slash when the officer, after calling out for her to stop, made his incredible four shots. So, there’s no meaningful dispute about how the evidence applies to the law. The facts and evidence disclose that he acted completely within well-established law.

Now, you might think this would present a problem for the fascists, but if you do you need to get woke. There’s no law anymore. Reason is a bourgeois conceit. They have figured out that you can simply deny the existence of law, evidence, and facts. And they figured out that Democrats like Grandpa Badfinger and the slobbering media hacks who engage in a perpetual media tongue bath of their lefty overlords will back them up.

See the problem? If you can’t rely on the law or the evidence, then you are at the mercy of the whims of the liberal elite. Sure, the cop did the right thing, and the evidence is indisputable that he did the right thing, but it doesn’t matter at all. The cop is wrong and subject to all sorts of sanctions not because he violated any rule but purely because it is useful for him to be guilty of something.

The Rule of Law has become the Rule of Power, which the bad guys possess for the moment. And they are so arrogant about it that they do not even bother to make a straight-faced argument against cops saving black children’s lives. Hey, it’s just a routine kid knife fight – no biggie. We all remember back in the day, hacking up other suburban teens with machetes and scimitars, and how the cops never bothered us. Not allowing black teens to be gutted is worse than Jim Crow – it’s Jim Eagle. Heck, it’s Jim Rodan.

And we all know if that punk planted a shiv in the other girl’s gut on the bodycam tape, the cop would be lynched for not stopping her. You can’t win, which is the idea.

You can’t have a society where normal people can’t possibly prevail by obeying well-established rules. You’re not wrong because you did something wrong but because you're being wrong is handy for the people who hate you.

Today, we normal people can no longer rely on the law or the facts to protect us.

We’re seeing this again and again. Scumbag losers threaten a family in St. Louis, who arm up to defend themselves, and they get charged. Some guy just wants to go home, get blocked by scumbag losers, and get arrested. On the macro tip, people who never owned slaves now somehow owe a huge debt over slavery to people who were never slaves. Guilt is determined not by law and evidence but by its convenience to the would-be tyrants. There’s no justice, just arbitrary exercises of power designed to reinforce the liberal paradigm. No matter how you act, no matter what you do, you are wrong, and if that requires tossing out the rules or ignoring the evidence, fine.

This is how our oppressors like it. But this is not how we like it. Normal people can only take getting bopped on the noggin by the southpaw monkey in the Nairobi Trio for so long before they hit back. You cannot have an enduring status quo where one side is firmly bound to rules and obligations while the other gets to make it up as they go along. Eventually, you will inevitably reach a breaking point. And that’s coming. Then the bad guys are going to miss the rules that they still expect to protect them.

 

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Texas School District Shames White Students As Part Of ‘Cultural Competence,’ Parents Enraged | The Daily Wire

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Texas School District Shames White Students As Part Of ‘Cultural Competence,’ Parents Enraged
By Ashe Schow
Apr 27, 2021 DailyWire.com•

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An incident involving white students singing along to racial slurs in rap lyrics led Texas’ most successful school district to adopt a radical approach to combating racism.

The Carroll Independent School District of Southlake, a Dallas suburb, is the “top-achieving school district in Texas,” according to The Federalist’s Joy Pullmann.

“It has no racial achievement gaps, which is nearly unheard of. That’s because Southlake attracts high-achieving families of all races,” Pullmann wrote. “The local median income is more than four times the national average and poverty there is statistically nonexistent. According to district data, ‘microaggressions,’ bullying, and racially charged incidents happen approximately three times per month in the district of 8,500 students, meaning they involve 0.3 percent of students a year.”

But because of videos showing students singling along to rap lyrics and the media attention they received, the district overreached and instituted programs meant to combat “institutional racism” but that in reality shame white students for the color of their skin.

The district adopted a “cultural competence” plan, Pullmann reported, after the videos went viral and “sometimes-crying taxpayers, parents, and students spent hours insisting their lives have been forever damaged by the kind of ‘institutional racism’ in Southlake illustrated by the rap sing-alongs.”

The complaints centered around teasing and graffiti, with those complaining demanding the school district treat the minor annoyances as if they were full-blown crimes. The rush to assume guilt was perpetuated by public figures, Pullman reported:

Retired Dallas Cowboys player Russell Maryland and Robin Cornish, the widow of another Cowboy, who both have kids in the district, used national media appearances to pressure the town to enact a “Cultural Competence Action Plan,” or CCAP. A long-form article from NBC News in January that quotes Cornish accuses the town of harboring racists.​

Cornish also told the Fort Worth Star-Telegram in February 2019 the school district was “sweeping this under the carpet, and they are complicit. Unfortunately, this is the way our country is right now. Southlake is a microcosm of that. We have someone running the country right now who says it’s OK to be racist.”​

“The idea that America is fundamentally flawed because some people have a [racist] problem in their minds, that’s a recipe to keep you in poverty and unhappiness for the rest of your life,” said Juan Saldivar, a father of a Southlake student, to explain his opposition to restructuring Southlake schools around “systemic racism.” “My parents always told me it doesn’t matter whether people like you, it matters whether the law protects you, and it does.”​

Parents haven’t been happy about the school’s training, with local parents organizing into a group to oppose CCAP. As Pullman reported, the CCAP teaches that anyone who dares to see everyone equally regardless of race are instigating “cultural blindness,” which is bad, in their view.​

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“White privilege is being able to navigate daily life in the American culture without having to think about race,” said a slide shown at a 2019 retreat to Carroll administrators. Another slide asked administrators “What does it mean for you to be white?” and urged them to “Take a moment to talk with your neighbor about ‘Whiteness.’” They were also asked to “Name some characteristics of white culture.”​

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During these discussions, Pullman reported, “administrators were also told that being white is a bad thing.”​

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“It includes ‘white fragility,’ ‘a state in which even a minimal amount of racial stress becomes intolerable, triggering a range of defensive moves (anger, fear, guilt.. silence),’ Pullman reported. “Ironically, the presentation also warns against ‘stereotyping,’ which it says ‘happens when you generalize about a person while ignoring the presence of individual differences.’”​

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One parent, Juan Saldivar, told Pullman that he didn’t want his kids taught this because it was “poison.”​

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“I did everything I could to get my child into [Carroll] and it’s No. 1 in Texas, and I say I do not want my child growing up with this stuff being injected into her brain because it’s poison,” he said in an interview. “It’s the seeds of destruction that ruin one’s ability to grow up happy and be a leader in society.”​

 

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Zerohedge

ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero

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Say It Loud: "I Am Not A Racist!"

TUESDAY, APR 27, 2021 - 07:20 PM
Authored by Stuart Reges, University of Washington via CampusReform.org,

When young people today watch images of police turning a firehose on black demonstrators they can only imagine what America was like in those days, but I don’t have to imagine it. I lived in that America and watching its sins displayed night after night on the evening news deeply affected me. That is why I have done a great deal of soul searching ever since I have been accused of being a racist.



It started when the UW College Republicans organized an affirmative action bake sale where they sold cookies at different prices depending upon the customer’s race. It was a political stunt meant to make people angry and they succeeded. Hundreds of protestors gathered around their booth along with a dozen police officers. I stopped by and tried to have a conversation with a young protestor but it degenerated into a situation where she loudly denounced me to a mob of several dozen students that surrounded me.

At one point I said that I didn’t see rampant racism on campus and the crowd burst into laughter. A local paper called The Stranger wrote about the incident and a local TV station included it on the evening news. I was surprised to find that this single incident branded me as a racist to many students and colleagues. After one of our students complained, the director of my school reprimanded me for a “lack of sensitivity to minority students.” A student experience survey conducted at the time generated several angry comments about me including one that said that I am “a garbage person and should not be teaching in this institution” and that I am, “the symbol of hate, ignorance, racism, and white supremacy. I would not be surprised if they were in the KKK.”

Last summer when I posted a message to a faculty mailing I was accused of being a racist for defending police officers during our summer of riots.
One faculty member wrote that, “What Stuart has shared is racist, trolling behavior from a faculty member with a long history of documented racial biases.”

In my lifetime I have seen this country make incredible progress on the race issue, so I was confused to find myself accused of being a racist.
Shelby Steele provided an answer.


In his book Shame he writes that in our divided society liberals pursue “poetic truth” that “disregards the actual truth in order to assert a larger essential truth that supports one’s ideological position” and that poetic truths “work by moral intimidation rather than by reason, so that even to question them is heresy.”

He goes on to write that:

“if you want to be politically correct, if you want to be seen as someone who is cleansed of America’s past ugliness, you will go along with the poetic truth that racism is still a great barrier for blacks. Conversely, embracing the literal truth—that racism is no longer a serious barrier—will make you politically incorrect and will stigmatize you with that ugliness.”

I know in my heart that I do not harbor ill will towards anyone based on race and it seems clear that most Americans believe the same thing. Overt racism has all but disappeared from modern life, especially on college campuses, but progressives have concocted various explanations for hidden forms of racism.

One accusation is that we have bias that we aren’t even aware of. In reviewing the many decisions I have made in my 35-year university career for admissions, hiring, and grading, I can’t find even one incident of negative racial bias. The only examples of bias were in the opposite direction with minority candidates treated more favorably. The euphemism is that they are “diversity” candidates as in, “We can hire three faculty this year, but the dean said that we can hire up to two more if they are diversity hires.”

Another accusation has been the claim of systemic racism, the idea that white men built our society so that it favors them. This idea should not be dismissed out of hand. I still remember when I first visited a store for left-handed people. I was amazed to find how much our society has been designed to work well for right-handed people. I didn’t realize that can openers and desks and notebooks had all been designed for right-handed people like me.

To take this idea seriously, though, the proponents would have to produce examples of how the system has been tilted in favor of white people. Where is the equivalent of the left-handed can opener? Many people have taken a stab at this although there are few convincing examples and many cases where people who make this argument have had to retract their claims. For example, The Smithsonian quickly apologized for producing a poster that indicated that white culture includes rugged individualism, the nuclear family, and the scientific method.

The only solid evidence for systemic racism is the fact that there are differences in outcomes across races with whites and Asians generally performing better.

But this argument falls apart when you consider alternate explanations. In my own courses I have found that course grades are highly correlated with lecture attendance and that mathematical background seems to be an issue for many students who struggle.

So to the extent that some minority students perform less well in my courses, it seems most likely that this stems from factors other than race including a weak math background and students putting in less effort than others.

Shame is a powerful emotion, but it’s time to stand up to these ideological bullies and to speak the truth.

It is not racist to oppose affirmative action.
It is not racist to challenge the claim of rampant racism on college campuses.
It is not racist to support the police.
It is not racist to challenge the claim of hidden bias and systemic racism.

I am not a racist and I won’t stay silent any longer.

 

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Yale research: Race-focused language of 'Democratic elites' hurts their causes

It's politically safer to appeal to class interests because of "backlash from race framing" among Republicans, survey finds.

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Yale research: Race-focused language of 'Democratic elites' hurts their causes

It's politically safer to appeal to class interests because of "backlash from race framing" among Republicans, survey finds.

By Greg Piper
Updated: April 27, 2021 - 3:12pm

Public support falls for progressive policies when they are framed as helping racial minorities, according to a new paper by Yale University researchers.

It questions the wisdom of "Democratic elites," including President Joe Biden and Senator Bernie Sanders, racializing ostensibly race-neutral issues such as infrastructure, climate change and minimum wage increases.

Appeals to class interests are best at increasing support for progressive policies across racial and political groups "despite leftward shifts in public attitudes towards issues of racial equality," according to Josh Kalla, assistant professor of political science and data science, and doctoral student Micah English.

The April 23 paper is a preprint, meaning it has not been peer-reviewed yet. It has received applause from Yale sociologist Nicholas Christakis and New York magazine writer Jonathan Chait, but the paper has also drawn criticism for asking subjects separately about race and class.

An ongoing research project is seeking to build a unified "Race-Class Narrative" (RCN) that progressive activists and politicians can use to improve election turnout and policy victories. Kalla emphasized that the survey didn't test RCN language, but said he would be "happy to do a follow-up study" with such language.

Kalla and English didn't respond to queries from Just the News about the feedback they've received so far and their theory for why the "class frame" is relatively less common now in progressive messaging.

The duo could become a target of race-focused progressive activists, given the repercussions faced by data scientist David Shor for tweeting research that found peaceful protest was historically more successful than violent protest.

Shared during the riots stemming from George Floyd's death in Minneapolis, the tweet drew widespread criticism in progressive circles, and Shor's employer fired him soon after.

Adding race to class "diminishes the positive effect of the class frame"
"A large body of research finds that highlighting the benefits of progressive policies for racial minorities undermines support for those policies," the paper says.

Kalla and English argue that their findings largely affirm this research, despite the enthusiasm of Democratic pollsters and strategists for "centering race" on seemingly unrelated political issues.

This spring they surveyed 5,000 online participants who were "randomly assigned to read a randomly sampled policy proposal" — a $15 minimum wage, student loan debt forgiveness, "upzoning housing," the Green New Deal, Medicare for All, or decriminalizing marijuana and erasing prior convictions.

Each was randomly assigned a different frame for the proposal: neutral, race, class, or "class plus race," which says a policy will promote both racial and economic justice. Participants eventually answered questions about all six proposals, with a new randomly chosen frame for each. Several frames were taken directly from Democratic politicians and Democratic messaging research firms.

The class frame "weakly dominates" the race and class-plus-race frames, which have no "detectable effects on policy support," the paper says. This suggests that adding race to class "diminishes the positive effect of the class frame."

Black participants are about as responsive to the class frame as the race frame, while non-Hispanic whites favor the class frame alone.

The big differences happen around partisanship. Democrats show statistically significant increases in support for policies framed by both class and class-plus-race, while Republicans show a statistically significant decrease in the class-plus-race frame.

For white Democrats, however, only the class frame is significant: "There is no evidence that white Democrats are particularly responsive to the race frames."

The survey also looked at survey responses on a "collective guilt index" for white participants. Those who self-reported the most guilt are "overwhelmingly supportive" of the policy proposals, while those with the least guilt show decreases in support for race and class-plus-race framings.

It's politically safer to frame issues by class because of the "backlash from race framing" among Republicans and the lack of difference between race and class framing among Democrats and minorities, the paper concludes.

The class frame alone communicates to whites that "they personally will benefit" from progressive policies, and it increases the likelihood of all participants to say a given policy is "fair."

Chait, the New York magazine writer, wrote that the results are only "odd" in the sense that they "shouldn't come as a surprise." If racism is indeed "a potent force in American life," then Republicans will try to convince voters that "any Democratic proposal is mainly designed to help Black people."

By rewarding politicians who "cater to their newfound awareness" of racism, white liberals are forgetting that President Barack Obama pushed through his signature healthcare law by not emphasizing it would "disproportionately benefit minorities," Chait said.

 

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America First Patriot Nick Fuentes Put On No-Fly List | Blog Posts

America First host Nick Fuentes can no longer fl...

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America First host Nick Fuentes can no longer fly on an airplane. He announced Tuesday that he couldn’t check into his flight because the authorities didn’t clear him to fly.



A surprising number of commentators rushed to his defense, including Glenn Greenwald and conservative reporter Eiljah Schaffer.



Fuentes believes he was put on the no-fly list due to hysteria over the Capitol protests. He has suffered numerous bans since January 6.



This is just the latest injustice committed by the Biden regime against the American people. There’s a new standard set: if your speech offends the powers that be, they can ban you from flying. No charges or trial required. This new power can be used against a whole plethora of conservatives and right-wingers.

The question is now: will Republicans speak up against this? Will Tucker Carlson bring attention to it on his show? Greenwald’s concern indicates Tucker will likely mention it. But will any Republican lawmaker share the same concern?
That’s too hard to tell at the moment.

 

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FBI sifted through NSA data for information on Americans

The FBI, led by director Christopher Wray left, searched the NSA's foreign electronic surveillance dragnet, right, for information on far right domestic extremists - without seeking a warrant.

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FBI combed through NSA's trove of Americans' communications WITHOUT a warrant in its search for 'racially motivated violent extremists' when it was already warned the practice was unconstitutional

• A newly declassified report shows the FBI trawled through vast troves of Americans' communications collected by the National Security Agency
• Despite previous warnings it was violating the Constitution, the report reveals how the FBI continues to use warrantless searches for routine criminal cases
• A single request from an FBI analyst for NSA data 'in connection with predicated criminal investigations relating to domestic terrorism' turned up 33 hits
• It's unclear from the heavily-redacted FISA court report whether it uncovered any criminal extremist behavior or made any arrests resulting from the searches
• A senior FBI official told the DailyMail.com the FBI had taken 'numerous steps' to comply with the FISA court guidance over the past 18 months
• It comes as the DHS vows to root out domestic extremists within its ranks, and Congress ponders new domestic terror laws

By BEVAN HURLEY FOR DAILYMAIL.COM

PUBLISHED: 11:05 EDT, 27 April 2021 | UPDATED: 13:28 EDT, 27 April 2021

The FBI searched troves of communications sucked up by the National Security Agency for information on 'racially motivated violent extremists' without a warrant, ignoring previous warnings it was breaking the law.

The FBI's requests for access to masses of electronic communications harvested by the National Security Agency (NSA) is revealed in a newly declassified report from the United States' secret surveillance court.

It shows the FBI has continued to perform warrantless searches through the NSA's most sensitive databases for routine criminal investigations, despite being told by a federal judge in 2018 and 2019 that such a use was an unconstitutional breach of privacy.


The FBI focused many of its warrantless searches - commonly referred to as backdoor queries - on suspected 'far-right' domestic terrorists, The Daily Beast reported.

It's unclear from the heavily-redacted Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) court report whether the FBI uncovered any criminal extremist behavior or made any arrests resulting from the searches.

In its gathering of 'foreign' communications data, the NSA often sweeps up Americans' communications, too.

It's unclear how many Americans had their data viewed by the FBI in its search for 'racially motivated' extremists.

The FISA report did reveal that a single request for data to the NSA from an FBI analyst for information on a suspected domestic terrorists returned 33 hits.

It's not clear how many other requests were tied to the hunt for alleged racially motivated extremists, nor who at the FBI asked for the data or approved the request.

A senior FBI official told DailyMail.com the FBI had taken 'numerous steps' to comply with the FISA court guidance over the past 18 months.

The official wouldn't answer other questions on specifics and referred questions to the NSA and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI).

An NSA spokesman said it wouldn't comment when reached by the DailyMail.com. A spokeswoman for the ODNI said they had no additional information to what FBI had provided.

Under Director Christopher Wray, the FBI has continued to conduct warrantless searches, potentially in breach of the US Constitution. Above, he testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee in March

The NSA's vast dragnet of electronic data is only supposed to be used by domestic agencies such as the FBI in cases of national security. Above is the NSA headquarters at Fort Meade, Maryland

Judges with the FISA secret surveillance court have repeatedly called out the FBI for its unconstitutional use of the NSA's electronic data. Above is US Cyber Command, home to the NSA headquarters in Maryland


The FBI did not say what it did with seized data that turned out to be harmless or irrelevant to its search, or whether its access to the NSA's electronic dragnet led to any arrests or convictions.

In 2019, a federal court ruled the US government can collect information about its citizens without obtaining a warrant if the information is gathered inadvertently while legally carrying out surveillance of non-nationals abroad, such as what the NSA does routinely.

The NSA monitors vast troves of global communications, including text messages, phone calls, emails and messages on encrypted apps, but is constrained by US law on how it uses the information against US citizens.

Incidental collection of Americans' data is allowed, according to a 2019 federal court ruling.

However, databases of stored NSA information could violate the Constitution’s Fourth Amendment protections against unreasonable searches and seizures.

The FBI has traditionally only been allowed to seek data in cases of national security.

But after the bureau began making requests for routine criminal investigations, the FISA courts have been cracking down on how the FBI can access the data of Americans who are caught in these sweeps.

The FBI has been repeatedly blasted by federal judges over its use of the NSA's vast electronic sweep of emails, texts and other electronic data.

In October 2019, the agency was found to have performed tens of thousands of illegal searches on Americans.

It probed the NSA database for information on US citizens - when legally it only could have been used to gather foreign intelligence information or in cases of national security.

The National Security Agency, operating inside the United States, is authorized to collect communications of foreigners overseas for foreign intelligence purposes.
The searches potentially breach a person's right to a fair trial, as The Fourth Amendment protects American citizens from 'unreasonable searches.'

A search of such raw data goes against the very same law that authorizes the surveillance program, the court ruled.

In December 2019, the top FISA judge called out the FBI for repeatedly submitting applications to wiretap former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page that were riddled with errors and omissions, and ordered the government to inform the court on how it plans to reform the process.

The scathing four-page order from Rosemary Collyer, the presiding judge over the U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISA), marks the first time the court has responded to the controversy, which became public last week with the release of a report by Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz.

Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas (seen above speaking to the press at the White House on March 1) announced an internal review to assess the threat of violent extremism from within the Department of Homeland Security

The internal review is part of a broader administration focus on domestic threats following the January 6 insurrection at the US Capitol. At least 52 of the more than 400 people arrested for taking part in the Capitol riot are either former or current military, law enforcement, or government service employees, according to ABC News

MAGA protesters walk up Capitol steps in 'ranger file'

https://videos.dailymail.co.uk/prev...579609388/636x382_MP4_7731754683579609388.mp4 .16 min

The NSA's vast dragnet of electronic data is only supposed to be used by domestic agencies such as the FBI in cases of national security.

In the newly released FISA report, which was dated November 2020, a judge says the FBI's Fourth Amendment violations were still 'apparently widespread'.

In a statement, a senior FBI official said the majority of the 'query incidents referenced in this report occurred prior to implementation of the FBI's system changes and training regarding the additional documentation requirements discussed above'.

FBI searches also looked into 'health care fraud, transnational organized crime, violent gangs' and 'public corruption and bribery'.

'The FBI is dedicated to full adherence with FISA’s requirements and to keeping the American people safe from national security threats,' the senior FBI official said.

It's unclear if they have ever faced any legal repercussions for the repeated breaches.

Revelations that the FBI are continuing to access the NSA's database without a warrant comes as Congress is considering new domestic terror laws in response to the January 6 attacks on the Capitol.

Security agencies and police departments are also pledging to rid their ranks of violent extremists.

On Monday, the Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas announced an internal review to assess the threat within the agency.

Senior DHS officials will immediately begin the review, which is aimed at preventing, detecting and responding to extremism within the ranks of a sprawling agency that includes the Coast Guard and the nation's immigration enforcement organizations, Secretary Mayorkas said in a letter announcing the effort.

 

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The Vanishing Anglo-Saxon › American Greatness

Recently, two Republican members of Congress, Representatives Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia and Paul Gosar of Arizona, floated a plan to launch the “America First Caucus.” A memo about the caucus’…

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The Vanishing Anglo-Saxon
Hating white Americans, denying them the same sense of identity—and thus dignity—that is afforded to every other group is the point.

By Pedro Gonzalez

April 25, 2021

Recently, two Republican members of Congress, Representatives Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia and Paul Gosar of Arizona, floated a plan to launch the “America First Caucus.” A memo about the caucus’ goals cited the importance of America’s “Anglo-Saxon political traditions,” and warned that mass immigration threatens the “unique identity” of the United States.

Liberals and conservatives denounced in unison the supposed bigotry of Green and Gosar’s plans. In Time, Mary Rambaran-Olm, a researcher on race in early England and a research fellow at the University of Toronto, did what academics do best: denounce a thing as racist while confusing the matter into oblivion with “nuance.” Yet, according to conservative columnist Jonah Goldberg, the “remarkable thing about this whole project isn’t its racism or nativism but its stupidity.”

Goldberg asserts that the “most enduring Anglo-Saxon political institution was monarchy,” and “our institutions aren’t ‘Anglo-Saxon,’ they’re Anglo-American,” and also French, Dutch, Greek, and Roman. Would Goldberg make such angry equivocations about what constitutes the identity of Israelis? The Jewish people have a sense of identity and heritage of which they can be proud, but simply making that point to Goldberg is to invite hysterical accusations of anti-Semitism.

Indeed, the knives of scrutiny are never applied to minorities, who are in fact encouraged to exaggerate their accomplishments. The Aztecs, says Sebastian Purcell, assistant professor of philosophy at SUNY-Cortland in New York, were superior philosophers to the Greeks. There is very little evidence to support that claim, but denying its validity is an act of racism. Further, the ancient Egyptian pharaohs were black, and any dissent is merely a testament to the history of scientific racism in the United States. In 2015, Routledge published a book with a title that was, in and of itself, a bold claim whites would never be allowed to make: How Blacks Built America. And that is the issue.

Albion’s Seed
For years, whites in America were told that it is fine to celebrate German or Dutch or Anglo heritage, but that “white” was a fake or problematic category.

The current controversy shows that this was always in bad faith. Hating white Americans, denying them the same sense of identity—and thus dignity—that is afforded to every other group was the point. And before denying the existence of a common culture, critics used to acknowledge America’s Anglo-Saxon roots if only to spite them.

Harold Cruse, a black American academic and Communist, lamented in 1967 that “America is a nation that lies to itself about who and what it is. It is a nation of minorities ruled by a minority of one—it thinks and acts as if it were a nation of white Anglo-Saxon Protestants.” Cruse complained that Americanization into Anglo-Saxon cultural patterns “effectively dissuaded, crippled and smothered the cultivation of democratic cultural pluralism in America.”

“This white Anglo-Saxon ideal, this lofty dream of a minority at the summit of its economic and political power and the height of its historical self-delusions, has led this nation to the brink of self-destruction,” Cruse wrote.

David Hackett Fischer’s tremendous 1989 study of the American population divided British settlers of the 17th and 18th centuries into four groups based on their origins in England. He concluded that virtually all early Americans spoke English, were Protestant, and adhered to British legal traditions—Anglo-Saxon law.

“In a cultural sense,” Fischer wrote, “most Americans are Albion’s seed, no matter who their own forebears may have been.” The legacy, Fischer added, “of four British folkways in early America remains the most powerful determinant of a voluntary society in the United States today.”

In his 1993 book on America’s Anglo-Saxon inheritance, Russell Kirk wrote that so “dominant has British culture been in America, north of the Rio Grande, from the seventeenth century to the present, that if somehow the British elements could be eliminated from all the cultural patterns of the United States—why, Americans would be left with no coherent culture in public or in private life.”

The same year Cruse died, famed Harvard political scientist Samuel P. Huntington published a book on American identity, in which he documented that the settler population that contributed to America’s core documents, institutions, and folkways was, by 1790, 98 percent Protestant, 80 percent British, and 60 percent ethnically English, with the remainder being largely German and Dutch.

Six Elements of Being American
Long before Cruse, Fischer, Kirk, or Huntington’s thoughtful commentary, the settlers themselves were aware of their heritage.

In Federalist 2, published in 1787, John Jay outlined six elements that made Americans: shared ancestry, shared language, shared religion, similar conceptions of government and law, a shared culture, and a shared historical experience. As new arrivals came, Jay said in 1797, the settler population had a responsibility to “see our people more Americanized.” The original draft of the Declaration of Independence itself was more particular than universal, with Thomas Jefferson mentioning “consanguinity,” distinguishing between “our common blood,” and that of “Scotch” and “foreign mercenaries.”

A remarkable part of America’s story has indeed been Americanization, whereby newcomers have managed to integrate into the common culture established by the mainly Anglo-Saxon descended dominant core populations. The late Justice Antonin Scalia balanced pride in his Italian heritage with an understanding of that inheritance.

“Diversity alone is not what makes a great nation . . . Diversity alone makes some of the tribal societies of the world that never quite make it,” he said on a panel in 2006. “It’s part of our tradition that everyone can be American,” Scalia went on, “but there has been a common culture—you don’t have to belong to it, but there has been that.”

Scalia recalled the indignation he felt as a junior in college studying abroad when his French-Swiss professors would constantly refer to “les pays Anglo-Saxons”—the Anglo-Saxon countries, meaning Britain, the United States, New Zealand, Canada, and Australia. “I said, you know, ‘Hey, my name is Scalia, and I’m as American as anybody. Look at this face, is this an Anglo-Saxon face?’” By the end, Scalia balanced his Italian heritage with an inherited culture that “originates with English culture, and that includes Shakespeare, it includes nursery rhymes that we all know, and that we use as examples—that’s our common culture.”

Scalia’s defense was ironic. It appears that few are more opposed to defending that common culture than its own descendants—certainly in elite circles where these ideas are debated. Apart from a minority taking up the side of the defense, white conservatives in the United States are torn between denouncing or diminishing the notion of “Anglo-Saxon” anything and affirming that America is, above all, an idea or set of self-evident truths, which may reveal something about the vanishing Anglo-Saxon minority.

A Revolutionary Moment
In his July 1999 review of Kevin P. Phillips’ The Cousins’ Wars, Samuel T. Francis took aim at the Whig view of history and its standard-bearers. The “Cousins’ Wars” are the English Revolution of 1640-1660, the American War for Independence of 1775-1783, and the American Civil War of 1861-1865, in which, according to Phillips, Anglo-Saxon peoples fell squarely on the side of “progress and liberty,” opposed to the anti-modern forces of reaction.

“In the full, three-century context, Cavaliers, aristocrats, and bishops pretty much lost and Puritans, Yankees, self-made entrepreneurs, Anglo-Saxon nationalists, and expansionists had the edge, especially in America,” Phillips wrote. Phillips does not, however, consider that it may have been the victory of certain Anglo ideas that spelled their own eventual demise.

“If the 20th century has been the Anglo century, and the Anglos have been driven by the kind of modernism that Mr. Phillips sees triumphing in the 1640s, 1780s, and 1860s,” Francis rebutted, “then these same forces might reasonably be held responsible for the incipient disappearance of the Anglo-Saxon peoples within the borders of the very lands their ancestors conquered and settled.”

“In the short run,” Francis concluded, “the kind of modernism Mr. Phillips ascribes to the victors in the Cousins’ Wars may conquer new countries, develop new sources of wealth, and spread liberty as far as it can reach, but its very success may also lead to its own destruction as the liberty it sows poisons the soil of its own civilization, the wealth it produces corrupts, and the conquered give laws to the conquerors.”

The debate Green and Gosar sparked is more important—and revealing—than either the caucus or its ostensible project. Because it shows that the challenge confronting the Right isn’t a conservative but a revolutionary one, in which it will need to foster a new way rather than replicate the old if it is to advance into and conquer the future.

 

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VIDEO: Tucker Carlson Slams Biden Administration For Putting Political Dissidents On No Fly List

"If it's true this is a turning point in American history. These are people, again, who have not been charged with crimes," said Carlson.

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VIDEO: Tucker Carlson Slams Biden Administration For Putting Political Dissidents On No Fly List

"If it's true this is a turning point in American history. These are people, again, who have not been charged with crimes," said Carlson.

by TOM PAPPERT
April 27, 2021



On tonight’s broadcast of Tucker Carlson Tonight, the Fox News host referred to Americans being placed on the TSA’s No Fly List by the Biden administration only hours after America First commentator Nick Fuentes revealed that he was added to the list.

“There are reports tonight that a number of American citizens including Americans who were at the Trump rally in January, the perfectly legal Trump rally in Washington in January, have been placed by this administration on the No Fly List, meaning they cannot fly domestically,” said Carlson, before noting that his team has not been able to independently verify the reports.

“If it’s true this is a turning point in American history. These are people, again, who have not been charged with crimes,” hammered Carlson. “If they have been prevented from traveling in their own country by the administration because the administration doesn’t like their political views, that is not democracy, that is dictatorship. We ought to find out who is on the No Fly List and why, and we should find out immediately.”

“And by the way, if they turn out to be members of Black Lives Matter, if Black Lives Matter leaders turn out to be on that list, we’ll be completely against that too.”

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1387207629982818307

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As National File reported earlier today, Fuentes says he discovered he was placed on the No Fly List after he attempted to board two separate flights to attend an event in Florida. The America First show host explained that he was told by two different airlines that the TSA would not allow him to board the plane, and while they would not say that he was added to the No Fly List explicitly, they suggested that he would have to appeal the decision with the TSA.

Fuentes believes he was placed on the No Fly List after he attended the completely peaceful portion of the pro-Trump rally that occurred in Washington, D.C. on January 6. There is no evidence that Fuentes entered the U.S. Capitol building or participated in illegal activities during the ensuing Capitol Hill protests.

 

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Biden, Democrats using MASSIVE US debt to ‘fundamentally transform’ America?
•Apr 28, 2021


Glenn Beck

Glenn and Stu run through the latest numbers, showing just HOW MUCH the US debt has grown not only over the last few presidencies but over the last 100 days too. But even if Biden and the Democrats promise that these 2 trillion dollar plans they propose will be used to solve the world’s biggest problems, Glenn says it’s all a ‘scam.’ They might be using our massive debt to fundamentally transform America — just like team Obama wanted to do years ago — and most American won’t realize it’s happening...

 

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OUTRAGEOUS: FISA Court Signs Off on Warrantless Surveillance Again Despite Numerous FBI Abuses | The Gateway Pundit | by Joe Hoft

FISA Court judges have excused another year of FISA abuse by the FBI and signed off on their desire to do it again in 2021. Americans woke up to the FISA Court in 2017 when we learned about material criminal actions that the FBI participated in during the Obama years. We also learned by 2020 and...

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OUTRAGEOUS: FISA Court Signs Off on Warrantless Surveillance Again Despite Numerous FBI Abuses

By Joe Hoft
Published April 28, 2021 at 1:30pm

FISA Court judges have excused another year of FISA abuse by the FBI and signed off on their desire to do it again in 2021.

Americans woke up to the FISA Court in 2017 when we learned about material criminal actions that the FBI participated in during the Obama years. We also learned by 2020 and 2021 that the FBI would not investigate or prosecute 2020 Election fraud cases, convincing all Americans that the FBI was truly corrupted.

In spite of all this, we now find out that the FBI continued its criminal ways from the Obama Administration into the Trump Administration and yet the FISA Courts, who know this, decided to give the FBI another chance. The Washington Examiner reports:

The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court’s presiding judge signed off on the sweeping surveillance powers held by federal spy agencies, a newly declassified yearly report shows, despite finding “widespread violations” of the FBI’s rules related to handling and searching the massive number of emails and other intercepts collected without a warrant.

Judge James Boasberg, the top judge on the FISA court, issued a 67-page ruling in November, which was made public on Monday, dealing with FBI analyst searches of information on U.S. citizens in emails and other data sources that the National Security Agency has collected. Despite a number of problems highlighted by the judge, similar to those highlighted in a December 2019 ruling by the FISA court, Boasberg gave the green light to the NSA’s warrantless surveillance program, authorized under Section 702 of the FISA Amendments Act, for another year.

The program stems from U.S. tech companies assisting the NSA overseas with intercepting the communications of foreign targets — some of whom are communicating with U.S. citizens. Despite improper searches by the bureau, the judge largely gave the FBI a pass, arguing many of the violations occurred before newly implemented reforms from the bureau were put in place.

“While the Court is concerned about the apparent widespread violations of the querying standard … it lacks sufficient information at this time to assess the adequacy of the FBI system changes and training, post-implementation,” Boasberg concluded. “Under these unique circumstances, and in the absence of evidence to the contrary, the Court is willing to again conclude that the improper queries described above do not undermine it’s prior determination that, with implementation of the documentation requirement, the FBI’s querying and minimization procedures meet statutory and Fourth Amendment requirements.”

This isn’t the first time the FBI lied to the FISA Court. In 2016 John Carlin lied to the FISA Court and he is now Acting Deputy AG under Biden.



Corrupt Former FBI Director James Comey knew an individual FISA Application was false but he sent it to the FISA Court anyways:



Another Memo to the FISA Court was dishonest and used to keep the corrupt fake Russia Collusion probe open:


So it’s really no surprise that the FISA Court is allowing the FBI to continue spying on Americans. Same as it ever was.

 

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Biden Administration To Ban Menthol Cigarettes... Because They're 'Racist'?

WEDNESDAY, APR 28, 2021 - 05:40 PM
Authored by Rick Moran via PJMedia.com,

The Biden administration will propose canceling (banning) menthol cigarettes because they attack more black people than white people.



Menthol cigarettes are racist. Regular flavored cigarettes don’t kill as many black people as menthol cigarettes and will henceforth be canceled. Because black people will ever only smoke menthol cigarettes and never smoke regular flavored cigarettes, right?

Washington Post:

On menthol, African American health groups and researchers say it is clear that Blacks have been disproportionately hurt by the cigarettes, which studies show are more addictive and harder to stop using than non-menthol cigarettes.

In the 1950s, only about 10 percent of Black smokers used menthol cigarettes. Today, that proportion is more than 85 percent, three times the rate for White smokers. African Americans die of tobacco-related illnesses, including cancer and heart disease, at higher rates than other groups, according to studies.

I smoked 3 packs of cigarettes a day most of my adult life and I can tell you without hesitation or qualification that anyone who believes canceling one kind of cigarettes will get people to stop smoking should be fired for rank stupidity.

It’s painfully — and laughably — obvious that whoever came up with this bright idea was never addicted to cigarettes or tobacco in their lives. When smokers want — think they absolutely need — a cigarette, they are not going to care one iota what flavor it is. They will smoke corn silk if that’s all you’ve got.

The administration also is poised to say it will seek to ban menthol and other flavors in mass-produced cigars, including small cigars popular with young people, according to administration officials familiar with the situation who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they are not authorized to discuss it publicly.

It could be years before such bans would take effect, but the administration’s announcement is likely to be hailed by antismoking organizations as a critical and long-overdue step in curbing tobacco use and improving public health. Despite sharp declines in smoking in recent years, tobacco use remains a leading source of illness and death in the United States and worldwide, especially among people of color.

If I were smart, I’d start buying menthol cigarettes now — by the case — because once that ban goes into effect, the black market for menthols will make me fabulously wealthy.

Unlike many of the administration’s plans, a ban on menthol cigarettes or flavored cigars does not require congressional approval. But the FDA first must put out proposed rules and consider public comments. Any final regulation banning menthol cigarettes would almost surely be challenged in court by the industry, which has repeatedly sued the FDA to try to block anti-tobacco regulation.

The administration is still considering another long-sought goal of antismoking activists: requiring tobacco companies to lower the amount of nicotine in cigarettes to nonaddictive levels. But it will not announce action on that issue this week, said the people with knowledge of the situation.

It’s even more ludicrous to advocate for lowering the nicotine levels in cigarettes. Studies by anti-smoking advocates have shown that “Light” cigarettes actually lead to people smoking more cigarettes a day in order to get their nicotine “fix” at the same level. There’s no evidence that lowering nicotine levels will lead to fewer smokers or lower cigarette intake.

What the government will never do is ban all cigarettes for all time — even for “the children.” More important than children to the government are the tax dollars taken in from selling a product that hits poor, black Americans the hardest. The fact that banning cigarettes would also lead to a new era of empowering gangs and other criminals doesn’t help the case for an outright ban.

Smoking seems to bring out the absolute worst in activists. They lose all sense of proportion and the reasoning centers of their brains lock up — more than usual, anyway.

 

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Barnard Professor Triggers Free Speech Controversy After Writing About "Detonating" And Gassing White People

WEDNESDAY, APR 28, 2021 - 03:25 PM
Authored by Jonathan Turley,

A book by a Barnard College English instructor named Ben Philippe has caused a firestorm due to his depiction of a fantasy of gassing white people. The book passage has led some to demand review from the college for possible discipline or termination.

As will come as no surprise to many on this blog, I believe such writing should be protected as a matter of free speech and academic freedom. The incident does however raise another case highlighting the uncertain or conflicting treatment given such writings by universities.

It is doubtful that a book discussing the gassing of minorities would have resulted in anything other than a rapid suspension and ultimate termination in many universities. That conflicting standard should also be a concern for free speech and academic freedom.

Philippe writes in his book “Sure, I’ll be your Black Friend” about “detonating” white people as nearby air vents spew out noxious gas:

“When this race war hits its crescendo, I’ll gather you all into a beautifully decorated room under the pretense of unity,. I’ll give a speech to civility and all the good times we share; I’ll smile as we raise glasses to your good, white health, while the detonator blinks under the table, knowing the exits are locked and the air vents filled with gas.”

So Philippe is describing the genocidal murder against white people.

According to a couple conservative sites, he was interviewed about his book on the CBC show “q” by guest host Talia Schlanger who noted that, as a Jewish person whose “grandparents survived the Holocaust,” she was disturbed by the passage. However, after Philippe said that “it was disturbing to write, too” and that he is not a violent person, Schlanger actually apologized to Philippe: “I wanted to say to you that I’m so sorry that your experience of the world made you feel that way.”

There are those will have suggested that declaring a desire or fantasy to explode and gas white people cannot be tolerated in an academic who must be able to teach students of all races. Moreover, such comments can be cited as creating a sense of a safe environment at Barnard. However, there is no indication that Philippe has engaged in such racist and violent speech in classes or on campuses. Such passages are expressing deep-seated anger from his own experience and perspectives in our society. I find them disturbing and offensive but authors have often used such shocking passages to challenge readers.

My concern is the biased or conflicting handling of such cases. I have defended faculty who have made similarly disturbing comments denouncing police, calling for Republicans to suffer, strangling police officers, celebrating the death of conservatives, calling for the killing of Trump supporters, supporting the murder of conservative protesters and other outrageous statements. These comments were not protested as creating an “unsafe environment” and were largely ignored by universities. However, professors and students are routinely investigated, suspended, and sanctioned for countervailing views.There were also controversies at the University of California and Boston University, where there have been criticism of such a double standard, even in the face of criminal conduct. There were also such an incident at the University of London involving Bahar Mustafa as well as one involving a University of Pennsylvania professor.

Some intolerant statements against students are deemed free speech while others are deemed hate speech or the basis for university action. There is a lack of consistency or uniformity in these actions which turn on the specific groups left aggrieved by out-of-school comments. There is also a tolerance of faculty and students tearing down fliers and stopping the speech of conservatives. Indeed, even faculty who assaulted pro-life advocates was supported by faculty and lionized for her activism.

As we have previously discussed (with an Oregon professor and a Rutgers professor), there remains an uncertain line in what language is protected for teachers in their private lives. A conservative North Carolina professor faced calls for termination over controversial tweets and was pushed to retire. Dr. Mike Adams, a professor of sociology and criminology, had long been a lightning rod of controversy. In 2014, we discussed his prevailing in a lawsuit that alleged discrimination due to his conservative views. He was then targeted again after an inflammatory tweet calling North Carolina a “slave state.” That led to his being pressured to resign with a settlement. He then committed suicide
The efforts to fire professors who voice dissenting views on various issues including an effort to oust a leading economist from the University of Chicago as well as a leading linguistics professor at Harvard and a literature professor at Penn. Sites like Lawyers, Guns, and Money feature writers like Colorado Law Professor Paul Campus who call for the firing of those with opposing views (including myself). Such campaigns have targeted teachers and students who contest the evidence of systemic racism in the use of lethal force by police or offer other opposing views in current debates over the pandemic, reparations, electoral fraud, or other issues.

The issue raised by Philippe is not whether he should be sanctioned but how these other professors have faced investigations, compelled retraining, or other measures for writings that simply disagree on public policy issues or express opposing political viewpoints — far short of discussing the gassing of white people.

University administrators often yield to protests and seek investigations and suspensions as a matter of course for targeted academics.

However, when controversies arise on the left, they tend to quickly (and correctly) cite free speech and academic values. The sharp contrast in how controversial speech is handled in these cases raises serious concerns over free speech and academic freedom.