[PJMedia] Nina Jankowicz, the one-time (and short-lived) head of the Department of Homeland Security's "Disinformation Governance Board," filed suit against Fox News last year alleging that the network "built a narrative calculated to lead consumers to believe that Jankowicz intended to censor Americans' speech" among other allegations.
In a delicious and deserved irony, the judge summarily tossed the suit, writing that, in essence, Fox told the truth.
"Fox contends, and I agree, that Jankowicz has not pleaded facts from which it could plausibly be inferred that the challenged statements regarding intended censorship by Jankowicz are not substantially true," U.S. District Judge Colm F. Connolly wrote in his July 22 order to dismiss. "On the contrary, as noted above, censorship is commonly understood to encompass efforts to scrutinize and examine speech in order to suppress certain communications. The Disinformation Governance Board was formed precisely to examine citizens' speech and, in coordination with the private sector, identify 'misinformation,' 'disinformation," and 'malinformation.'"
Case dismissed.
The Disinformation Board was tasked with searching far and wide across the internet to ferret out "misinformation (unintentional falsehoods), disinformation (deliberate falsehoods), and malinformation (inconveniently shared truths)," as J.D. Tuccille of Reason.com reports.
The problems with this mandate are that 1) it's the government doing the policing, and 2) trying to decipher and separate truth from fiction, fact from fancy, and interpreting any speech based on subjective criteria is idiotic and unconstitutional.
In addition to the allegation that Fox News spread information about Jankowicz's role with the Disinformation Board, she claimed the network also:
"said that Jankowicz was fired from DHS" even though "Jankowicz had resigned due to harassment arising from Fox's defamation," and
"said that Jankowicz wanted to give verified Twitter users the power to edit others' tweets."
Tuccille notes that "Judge Connolly found that 36 of 37 specified criticisms were leveled at the board as a whole and not her. Further, many statements were expressions of opinion, which are not actionable under U.S. law."
Even more embarrassing for Jankowicz, Judge Connolly found that most of the allegations were true.
[FoxNews] The report states that the influx of migrants warrants an urgent need to expand access to 'English for Speakers of other Languages' services.
The report, released by MassInc and UMass Donahue on Wednesday, found that an estimated 480,000 residents have limited English proficiency (LEP). This makes up approximately 10% of the state’s workforce. The data could be an undercount, considering that it stems from 2022 Census estimates.
The report urges state officials to accommodate the growing number of immigrants that could "contribute at their full potential to the commonwealth’s social and economic vitality." Furthermore, the report states that if state officials were to boost LEP skills by one level of proficiency, it could generate $3 billion in additional annual earnings to local economies.
Therefore, due to the influx of migrants, it warrants an urgent need to expand access to "English for Speakers of other Languages" (ESOL) services.
Per the report, "Nearly two decades later, additional investment to increase access to ESOL is more critical than ever. For, while Massachusetts has developed many creative models to deliver these services, state and federal ESOL spending has not kept pace with the growth of our foreign-born population."
The report comes after Gov. Maura Healey announced on Tuesday new restrictions that Massachusetts families must be prioritized for services.
The restrictions come amid a growing influx of migrants that is burdening the state’s homeless shelter system.
[FoxNews] According to Bailey's lawsuit, the government has not provided records on illegal immigrant transportation into Missouri.
Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey is filing a lawsuit against the Biden administration for reportedly flying illegal immigrants to Missouri.
Bailey told Fox News Digital he is filing a lawsuit against President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris for refusing to turn over documents related to flying illegal immigrants into Missouri.
"We have reason to believe they are deliberately flying illegal aliens from the border into our cities. Not on my watch," Bailey wrote in a post on X.
In his lawsuit that he shared exclusively with Fox News Digital, Bailey says the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has intentionally delayed responding to his request for the documents about the flights to Missouri.
"This game of ‘hide and seek’ violates the spirit and the letter of FOIA, which states that an agency shall withhold information only when the agency ‘reasonably foresees that disclosure would harm an interest protected by an exemption’ or if ‘disclosure is prohibited by law’," the lawsuit reads.
"DHS’s withholding of crucial information has frustrated the ability of citizens to exercise the rights Congress outlined in the FOIA statute. This lack of transparency and refusal to comply with lawful FOIA demands has hindered efforts by the Missouri Attorney General's Office to determine the size and scope of illegal immigration within the Show Me state," the lawsuit continued.
Bailey said the transportation of illegal immigrants into Missouri is a matter of public concern, and the citizens of Missouri have a right to know the facts about these alleged activities.
Meh. Both the far left and the far right love to hate the Jews — one of the many ways they are exactly alike. And nowadays it’s a way that those who are otherwise fairly normal like to play at being edgy free spirits.
[X] Ruby Freeman was actually awarded the "Presidential Citizens Medal" for helping STEAL the 2020 election by committing voter fraud in Fulton County!!
They literally throw it in our face! Isn't their arrogance just astounding???!!🙄👇
According to the Rantburg archives, Ms Freeman, her daughter (the shift supervisor), and several others were presented with the award in early 2023. Which explains why President Biden is looking so much more spritely in the video than we’re used to seeing him nowadays.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Dr. Anthony Fauci is being accused of lying to Congress last month when he said he never used private email to conduct official business.
Fauci, 83, told a journalist in 2021 that he would reach out to them through his private email as he faced backlash over research being done on beagle puppies by his National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease (NIAID).
The project saw innocent hound dogs tormented and killed in a lab in Tunisia to learn more about a parasitic disease, something the NIAID initially denied funding before Fauci confirmed this year that was a fib.
It also saw the hashtag #ArrestFauci trend on the site formerly known as Twitter, as he also faced backlash over his handling of the pandemic. The now-retired expert faced a grilling about this in June as well.
The White Coat Waste Project, who years ago revealed how NIAID spent $1.86million in taxpayer funds on the tests, has now uncovered correspondence where the doctor told a reporter he would message him personally as they spoke briefly about the then budding scandal.
Back in June, the former head of the NIAID told lawmakers he never used a personal email to discuss work - a stance that, while now coming into question, he continues to maintain.
'I will send you an e-mail via my gmail account,' Fauci wrote in the email dated October 29, 2021, and sent to Washington Post reporter Yasmeen Abutaleb.
Shortly before, the journalist who had been the national health policy reporter for the paper at the time, sent a message that appeared to air pity toward the doc about the series of 'crazy articles' that had surfaced surrounding the beagle experiments.
Earlier emails showed how Fauci shared an article from the fact check website Snopes, in which journalists seemingly sought to cast doubt on his connection to the experiments.
The article further suggested Fauci, who retired in August 2022, did not sign off on the taxpayer-funded experiments, which, aside from spawning widespread outrage, warranted a scathing rebuke from members of Congress.
The Snopes article called them 'rumors' designed to 'disparage' the then-NIAID director, and Fauci in turn wrote to the journalist, 'As per our discussion, more of the same.'
The latter appeared to dismiss legitimate questions about the experiments where dogs were left for sand flies to be eaten alive for research purposes as outlandish.
Some three years later, he would concede to a House subcommittee that he 'signed off' on grants that funded the tests - an admission offered before several lawmakers on June 3.
The inconsistency isn't the first from the lifelong doctor, and apparently isn't the last either, if the FOIA records obtained by the White Coat Waste Project and The New York Post are to be taken seriously.
As mentioned, the exchange - occurring less than a year before Fauci's retirement and Abutaleb's seemingly simultaneously ascension to Post White House reporter - suggested the doctor sent an email to the woman from his personal account.
In a fact-check last month surrounding the now confirmed Beagle experiment, the Washington Post found the government-sanctioned was erased from a grant database weeks after members of the press began inquiring about it in 2021.
'Beaglegate' was thus born, a mostly online movement that questioned Fauci and the government's involvement that culminated with White Coat Waste Project in 2022 releasing internal NIAID documents that included the full grant proposal.
Months before, Fauci had asked NIAID staff for details of the grant - after which one of the agency’s employees pressured the journal that published the study to remove its affiliation, according to internal NIAID documents obtained by White Coat Waste.
Representatives for the NIAID would then argue it funded a separate but similar study involving sand flies, before Fauci slammed reports on the experiments as 'lunacy' from the 'far-right' in his recent memoir.
However, days before the book published, he suddenly changed his tune - telling Congress he did, in fact, sign off on the Tunisia experiments - 'because they were approved by a peer review', he said in his June 3 testimony.
The committee had already obtained a trove of emails showing one of his top aides, Dr. David Morens, using a private email account to evade FOIA requests while bragging about deleting 'smoking guns.'
Fauci’s top adviser at NIAID from 1998 to 2022, Morens is now the subject of an internal NIH investigation for alleged FOIA evasions and the deletion of federal records.
Correspondence between EcoHealth Alliance President Dr. Peter Daszak and Fauci was also uncovered, after the nonprofit received more than half a million in funding from NIH to help conduct gain-of-function experiments at the Wuhan Institute of Virology beginning in 2014.
Another donor in Brighton, MI has donated over 2,500 times since October 2023.
Their listed address is a retirement home. Is @actblue scamming a retiree by convincing them to repeatedly sign up for recurring contributions? pic.twitter.com/MMyftho81v
Tut tut. Nothing to see here. Move along. Move along.
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They have been doing this for years, Fred. It's a form of money laundering that the supposed 'donors' know nothing about. ActBlue uses this to get around the political donations cap
Of course it would be illegal and horrific if Republicans did it.
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[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] … on $300,000 salary with no qualification.
San Francisco's controversial DA Brooke Jenkins
…she claimed to be radically different when she led the recall effort against her Soros-supported predecessor, then fired most of his staff. But it sure looks like the biggest difference is that she is not him…
has been accused of nepotism after hiring an old friend with no legal qualifications to run her office on an eye-watering salary. Nursing professor Monifa Willis was given the $300,000 job in March, two years after Jenkins asked her to head the department's Victim Services Division.
The pair were on same high school track-and-field team and have hung out together at restaurants, football games and waxing salons
…that just expanded the list of things I do not want to know about other people…
in the last three years according to their Venmo accounts.
Jenkins did not advertise the post and allowed the former marijuana dealer to her to keep her $100,000 part-time teaching job at UCSF, despite rules banning jobs that might interfere with the office's work.
'Nepotism erodes public trust,' said Ryan Khojasteh who challenging Jenkins for her job. 'As San Franciscans, we deserve better from our District Attorney's Office.'
Whistleblowers told the SF Standard that Willis's obligations were already damaging the department when she was in charge of Victim Services.
'Stuff fell through the cracks all the time because she was too busy doing two jobs,' a former staffer said. 'I've seen her (teaching online) classes during work hours.
'She was given this position because she knew the DA.'
And a former senior administrator in the office said legal qualifications are a pre-requisite for doing the job effectively.
'You have to have some basic understanding of the criminal justice system, and you don't get that as a victim services advocate,' he added.
Jenkins was appointed DA by city mayor London Breed in July 2022 after campaigning for the recall of incumbent Chesa Boudin.
...the much-maligned Soros tool and Weatherman scion (remember them?) who was recalled by the voters after they voted him in on promises to do exactly what they later recalled him for. He is now running UC-Berkeley Law’s criminal justice center, which is an interesting choice…
She stepped into a role once held by Vice-President Kamala Harris promising to 'hold drug dealers accountable for their crimes' and 'end open-air drug markets' which had been allowed to proliferate under her predecessor.
But the number of people living on the streets has soared to more than 8,000 as businesses and residents have continued their exodus from the heart of the city.
An exacting job description for the role of DA chief-of-staff says the office holder 'oversees, develops and delegates responsibilities for essential processes of the city's preeminent law enforcement agency including areas of policy and legislation, staffing, communications, data and research, victim services, community engagement, front office operations and all large scale projects/changes and implementations that impacts the Office'.
Willis's experience includes time as the CEO of a now defunct marijuana dispensary called New Life CA.
That doesn’t feel at all the same as a dealer…
Neighboring Contra Costa County requires its DA's chief-of-staff to have a law license and 10 years of professional legal experience. San Francisco requires four years of managerial experience in a legal, legislative or clinical social environment.
But Jenkins said Willis was eminently qualified when she announced the appointment in March, hailing her 'wealth of operational experience as an organizer that has successfully launched state recognized mental health programming and improved hospital operations to better serve children and families'.
The questions emerged just days after a former employee of the Victim Services division sued the DA's department after losing his job because of an accidental 'reply-all' email.
Jovan Thomas, 56, filed the complaint Friday, six months after he was fired for asking Jenkins 'what color' her panties were in a message sent to the entire office.
Soon after Thomas sent the email, Chief Assistant District Attorney Ana Gonzalez sent the office an email saying the issue was being handled by the administration and asking staff to delete the email and not share it.
Thomas, on his part, claimed he meant to send the message as a joke to a fraternity brother. He was fired that day, but now claims that after his employment was terminated, defendants violated his privacy and defamed him by misrepresenting what had happened. He is seeking a jury trial and compensatory and punitive damages as a result.
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Looks like somebody has adopted the Fani Willis Employment method. Really don’t want to know about the off-duty perks, but nothing would surprise me.
[TOWNHALL] 2024 has already proven to be a headache for the Democratic Party. They had to force President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. We get to suffer the consequences... out of the race to save their "legacy," and Kámala Harris Former Oakland mayor Willie Brown's former mistress, then a senatrix from California former 2020 Dem presidential hopeful, and Joe Biden's wing nut, Joe's intended successor'... is not the saving grace they were hoping for.
Meanwhile,
...back at the wreckage, Captain Poindexter wished he had a cup of coffee. Even instant would do... outside the White House, things aren’t looking too good for the party.
For the first time in nearly a decade, Ohio's vulnerable Democratic incumbent, Sen. Sherrod I absolutely trust Hillary Brown Dem senator from Ohio who harbored the same presidential ambitions as the rest of his colleagues. At a distance he was indistinguishable from most other Dem politicians, including the females. It can be said that he waned without waxing... (D-OH), failed to secure the police union's endorsement by four votes during a floor vote.
For the past 12 years, Brown has had the support of the Ohio Fraternal Order of Police (FOP).
However,
a hangover is the wrath of grapes... for the first time since the start of his senate career, he failed to earn it, pointing to a tweet he made about a controversial shooting as one of the top reasons for withdrawing their support this election cycle.
"It came down to a tweet," Mike Weinman, Ohio FOP front man, said. "There was a shooting here, and Sherrod, instead of taking time to listen and talk to us and understand the situation, did what all these people do now and got on his phone. Brown made a comment. It’s a shame."
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Coming from the nose ring - danger hair crowd, I'll take it.
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Orange man bad, deplorables, sleepy Joe, kackling kamala, now weirdo. All the name calling is meant to make this a Jr High school popularity contest. Both sides have a machine driving policy and our nations future behind them. Joe, asleep at the wheel is living proof that the lefts machine is still in complete control.
So the question becomes which machine do we vote for, after ignoring all the personalities and names? On the left is the new progressives wanting to double down on administrative state and the policies to support it, Green "New deal", stacking the court, court term limits, and carbon mandates are examples of the future under the progressive leadership.
The right has full swung into natural rights, strengthen the states rights over federal control, focusing on what the fed is specifically and constitutionally responsible for, defense and economic growth.
We, the American people should be debating the policies and directions of the parties, not their weirdness or skin color.
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This from a guy who is well on record as wanting to nuke white rural Christians who are “disobedient” to Democrats.
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'Everybody should end up in the same place.' It seems amazing that a major-party nominee for President of the United States would say this, but here it is, from Kamala Harris on Feb 27, 2021. https://t.co/H7JzOz0qtfpic.twitter.com/FwA2zb2ZV2
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If we all are supposed to end up in the same place, then all of our ancestors would have gone there together, used up the area resources and died off.
Perhaps that's the plan.
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Well, everyone goes to a sorting room then on to one of two places.
They'll find out three surprises. One that they're there. Two who are there they didn't expect. Three those who aren't there they did expect.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[FoxNews] The report states that the influx of migrants warrants an urgent need to expand access to 'English for Speakers of other Languages' services.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] … on $300,000 salary with no qualification.
...46th president of the U.S. We get to suffer the consequences...
