[PJMedia] A federal appeals court upheld a Texas law that bans Big Tech from censoring speech based on political viewpoint on Friday.
On Sept. 9, 2021, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott signed House Bill 20 into law. In a statement, Abbott summarized the new law:
House Bill 20 prevents social media companies with more than 50 million monthly users banning users simply based on their political viewpoints. The law also requires several consumer protection disclosures and processes related to content management on the social media sites to which the bill applies. These sites must disclose their content management and moderation policies and implement a complaint and appeals process for content they remove, providing a reason for the removal and a review of their decision. They also must review and remove illegal content within 48 hours. House Bill 20 also prohibits email service providers from impeding the transmission of email messages based on content.
The law was promptly challenged by NetChoice and the Computer & Communications Industry Association. They argued that tech companies have a First Amendment right to select and curate the content people post on their platforms. They were able to get the new law blocked, but Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton appealed that decision — and won.
Judge Andrew S. Oldham, writing for the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, said, “The platforms urge us to hold that the statute is facially unconstitutional and hence cannot be applied to anyone at any time and under any circumstances.” But the court found that “In urging such sweeping relief, the platforms offer a rather odd inversion of the First Amendment. That Amendment, of course, protects every person’s right to ‘the freedom of speech.’ But the platforms argue that buried somewhere in the person’s enumerated right to free speech lies a corporation’s unenumerated right to muzzle speech.”
Paxton, who argued in favor of the Texas law, celebrated his win in a tweet:
In the ruling, the court upheld the argument that the tech giants are analogous to utilities:
The implications of the platforms’ argument are staggering. On the platforms’ view, email providers, mobile phone companies, and banks could cancel the accounts of anyone who sends an email, makes a phone call, or spends money in support of a disfavored political party, candidate, or business. What’s worse, the platforms argue that a business can acquire a dominant market position by holding itself out as open to everyone-as Twitter did in championing itself as “the free speech wing of the free speech party.”…Then, having cemented itself as the monopolist of “the modern public square,”…Twitter unapologetically argues that it could turn around and ban all pro-LGBT speech for no other reason than its employees want to pick on members of that community…
“Today we reject the idea that corporations have a freewheeling First Amendment right to censor what people say,” concluded the ruling.
Related: Twitter Is Just Fine With Calls to Assassinate Justice Thomas
Fox News points out that the Fifth Circuit ruling will likely send the case to the Supreme Court:
Friday’s ruling created what is known as a “circuit split,” since the eleventh circuit struck down a similar social media law in Florida. A circuit split generally increases the likelihood of the Supreme Court taking up a case.
A showdown at the U.S. Supreme Court has become necessary to break Big Tech’s stranglehold on the flow of information. It’s not right that such massive and powerful platforms choose to act as a publisher and pick and choose what content they carry while also enjoying federal protection from liability arising from that content. They can’t have it both ways, and the 5th Circuit’s decision is a crucial step toward remedying leftwing monopolistic social media.
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A question I haven't looked at yet is whether the Texas bill is now enforceable. Enforcement of it had been enjoined before the Fifth Circuit ruling. Also: from here on out does a violation of the Texas statute give rise to a claim for damages?
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California tries to make its laws apply beyond its borders. So does New York. I'm sure there are other examples.
Not saying it's legal or practical to attempt, just that the precedent exists.
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^ For the time being, the objective isn't so much to enforce the Texas statute as to scare the crap out of Twitter's in-house lawyers and Twitter's insurers.
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[IsraelTimes] Mayor Eric Adams says antisemitism ‘won’t be tolerated’ after woman strikes Haredi man on sidewalk, as community members call for stiffer punishments against assailants.
Of course it is being tolerated, Herr Mayor. If it were not tolerated, the miscreants would be immediately hunted down and arrested, tried, convicted, and jailed. Instead they are released without bail even more quickly than they are arrested, if anyone even bothers to arrest them. But Brooklyn DA Eric Gonzalez far prefers releasing criminals to jailing them.
New York City Mayor Eric Adams ...retired New York City police captain, member of the New York State Senate, first Black Brooklyn borough president, law and order Dem after a brief fling with the Publicans. The New York Times isn't fond of him, suspecting he may not actually be black... on Sunday condemned attacks on Jews as near-daily assaults on community members continued, drawing calls for more US government action.
"These outrageous attacks on our Jewish community won’t be tolerated, not in our city," Adams said in response to a video showing a woman striking a Jewish man.
The video posted by Boro Park Shomrim, a neighborhood watch group, showed the woman pursuing an ultra-Orthodox man down a city sidewalk, screaming at him. She then swatted off his kippah and shtreimel, a traditional hat worn by Haredi men on Shabbat and holidays.
Boro Park Shomrim said the woman had been arrested.
"We will keep our streets safe," Adams said, thanking police for "their quick response to these acts of anti-Semitic hatred."
New York State Governor Kathy Hochul said, "Acts of antisemitism are abhorrent and unacceptable."
"Hate crimes will not be tolerated in New York, and we’ve strengthened our laws to further hold perpetrators accountable," Hochul said.
Unenforced laws do more harm than a lack of laws on the subject altogether.
The American Jewish Committee, Anti-Defamation League, US House Representative Jerry Fester Bestertester Nadler ...the Dem New York representative-for-life who stepped whole from a Don Martin drawing in the pages of Mad® magazine, head of the House Judiciary Committee... and local politicians also condemned the attack.
How nice of them. Anyone doing anything to seriously punish the criminals?
A nearly identical incident also occurred in Boro Park earlier this week when a man riding a bicycle knocked the hat off of a Jewish man on a street.
Jews are consistently the group most targeted in hate crimes in New York City on an annual basis, in per capita and absolute terms, with the Anti-Defamation League reporting a record-high number of incidents last year. The NYPD has confirmed 149 anti-Jewish hate crimes between the start of the year and June 28, representing an incident every 29 hours on average. The attacks range from violent mostly peaceful assaults to racial slurs and property damage, and many more likely go unreported. In August, the NYPD reported 24 anti-Jewish hate crimes, far more than against any other group and a 118-percent jump over the same month last year.
Many of the attacks target visibly identifiable Jews and Jewish targets in Brooklyn. Haredi communities in the area are also feeling under attack due to an uproar over secular education in the yeshiva religious school system,
... the yeshivas are in the wrong on this one, and need to get over themselves...
with some community leaders warning the issue could stoke further antisemitism.
Most of the attacks do not result in serious punishment, drawing the ire of Jewish advocates who have demanded changes to bail laws that could lead to harsher repercussions for assailants.
Late last month, police announced two arrests for suspected hate crimes against Jews, as Brooklyn community leaders praised police, called for bail reform and said the community was "terrified." Police also said they would step up patrols around synagogues.
On Thursday, US House Representative Ritchie Torres called on the FBI ...Formerly one of the world's premier criminal investigation organizations, something for a nation to be proud of. Now it's a political arm of the Deep State oligarchy that is willing to trump up charges, suppress evidence, or take out insurance policies come election time... and the US attorney general to investigate New York’s response to antisemitism, highlighting the low number of serious punishments for anti-Jewish hate crimes.
"The federal government can no longer stand by passively as antisemitic violence goes unchecked and unpunished in America’s largest city," said Torres, a Democrat who represents New York’s 15th Congressional district in the Bronx and is a firm supporter of Jewish communities and Israel.
In a rare case, a US federal court charged a pro-Paleostinian activist muppet with a hate crime after he beat a Jewish man on the sidelines of a protest in Manhattan in April. An investigation found the defendant had attacked two other Jews in unprovoked assaults last year.
That’s Saadah Masoud, 28, of Brooklyn, BBA from Baruch College and enjoying a sparkling career as a hotel bellboy, in his free time a Within Our Lifetime (WOL) leader with multiple arrests for threatening and attacking Jews, whom he sometimes figleafs with the label of Zionists. This time he put his target in the hospital in April, then was released on bail the same day he was arrested by the feds in June. Supposedly he is under house arrest until his next hearing.
In some of the other incidents in the past week, a Jewish man was punched in the face repeatedly in an unprovoked attack in Queens; Nazi graffiti was sprayed on a fountain in Manhattan; and a Jewish woman was shot with a BB gun in Brooklyn.
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Usually they keep this kind of thing under wraps. Setting the black community against Jews isn't in their interest. Notice how race isn't mentioned at all, but it's definitely the blacks doing this. It's because of links shared on social media - they found out who owned the slave ships.
Throughout Leonard Jeffries' speech last Wednesday, he reiterated a call to the audience: "Be prepared." He told students to form study groups, for "the truth has to be heard." I and several others did precisely that before his visit. We spent hours pouring over his Albany speech, and over dusty books in Widener.
In particular, we sought to find out the truth about Jewish involvement in the slave trade. At Albany, Jeffries said that rich Jews financed the slave trade: "We have the names, we know who they were, what they were, what they controlled. We know when they set up the Dutch East India Company, the Dutch West India Company, the Portuguese company, the Brazilian company."
I'll take the charges one at a time. The Dutch East India Company did not deal in the slave trade. As for the "Portuguese company" and the "Brazilian company," I can only assume Jeffries meant the Brazil Company, founded by Portugal to attract Jews. It too did not deal in slavery. Of the four, only the Dutch West India Company did in fact deal in the slave trade. Of the company's 3,000,000 florins in original capital, Jews contributed only 36,000, or 1.2 percent. In 1656, seven of 167 major shareholders were Jews; in 1671, ten of 192.
When I confronted Jeffries with these facts last Wednesday, Jeffries seemed shocked. First he insisted that the Dutch West India Company did deal in slavery--that is, he didn't listen to my question. The moderater intervened to make Jeffries answer my question.
Jeffries explained that the Jews had invested secretly in the company--another Jewish conspiracy. In between killing Christian babies and plotting to take over the world, these remarkable Jews found the time to invest secretly in the slave trade!
Dr. Jeffries, I would like to see your documentation--I've read the books you named, and they don't support your claims. You said I wasn't serious about my scholarship because I've never received a half million dollar grant. If you are reading this, Dr. Jeffries, I challenge you to offer me a position doing research. Dr. Jeffries, I am serious about my scholarship; are you?
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"Never let the truth get in the way of the narrative."
- A. Fauci
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As elections grow closer, and it is clear every possible vote is needed, suddenly the LSD's are trying to act like moderates.
Where were they on this issue just a few months or even a few weeks ago?
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Frank G is using what is known as the "hasty generalization" fallacy. In this instance, the history or origin of the source is used to dismiss an argument, in lieu of using actual rhetoric to address the substance of the argument.
You can whistle past the graveyard if you want, but the discovery of the slave ship financing is what is powering the black-on-Jewish anti-Semitic attacks in New York.
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What is powering the black-on-Jewish anti-Semitic attacks is the fact that most of these afromarxist scum are moslems or related to or outright in awe of mohammed lickers.
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That woman in the video is a crazy, drugged up hooker. She doesn't know an Orthodox Jew from a potted plant. She saw a funny hat on a guy's head, so she knocked it off.
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what is powering the black-on-Jewish anti-Semitic attacks in New York
Sonny, pushing your conspiracy narrative that has no merit is what is powering this crap.
Good on you Frank for calling him out
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Sonny is caught in the quicksand of conspiracy. The harder he struggles, the deeper he gets sucked in.
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Frank G is using what is known as the "hasty generalization" fallacy. In this instance, the history or origin of the source is used to dismiss an argument, in lieu of using actual rhetoric to address the substance of the argument.
Wow. Did I miss something? What does that even mean? What substance does your argument have? Sources, please.
And even if a handful of Jews invested in some of these companies some three or four hundred years ago it doesn't justify violence in the streets against modern day Jews. I've heard that Arabs got into that business as well...
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There was a time where "guilt by association" was considered a dishonest gambit.
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That's from the 1420 Project study guide. They are the ones going around saying, "I Fucking Love History."
#18
And we should tear down all the Thomas Jefferson statues? And Christopher Columbus? And send all our money to BLM?
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fwiw, current college courses emphasize west africa slave trade
the east Africa slave trade, which was largely run by moslems, was more robust and lasted longer is essentially ignored as is the fact that remnants of this system still exist
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Chattel slavery was (is?) practiced in the Orient. My Brother had a Japanese Sensei that had been sold to a Karate dojo as a child ...pre WW2, but that illustrates that 'people selling people' is a worldwide phenomena. In China it was common for slaves 'servants' to be contracted for life and have their children follow them in 'service'.
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"Of course it is being tolerated, Herr Mayor. If it were not tolerated, the miscreants would be immediately hunted down and arrested, tried, convicted, and jailed. Instead they are released without bail even more quickly than they are arrested, if anyone even bothers to arrest them. But Brooklyn DA Eric Gonzalez far prefers releasing criminals to jailing them."
Exactly right. The disconnect between words (sometimes meant, sometimes not) and actions has not been this wide since the days of the Pharisees.
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I can't think of a single group which has not been both the slave and the slaver at some point in their history.
But please, tell us more about how African peoples can't control their emotions.
Even though the video is of a junkie'd out white chick. But go on.
#23
When do whites get reparations for the women and children "native people" took in early colonial and frontier times?
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Condemnation is easy. When is he going to do something about it?
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Just because someone thinks more quickly than you, Sonny de Medici5342, does not make their conclusions fallacious. Sometimes it just makes them smarter and more knowledgeable.
Africans are still hunting down other other Africans to sell for profit. Nor is it only Africans — google slavery in Mali or slavery in Mauritania or slavery in Saudi Arabia. Some of the Chibok girls kidnapped from their Nigerian boarding school by Boko Haram in 2014 will never be returned to their families because they were sold to rich Muslims in the Middle East and beyond; many girls stolen by ISIS in Iraq and Syria were sold similarly — to jihadi groups, other people’s children are a cash crop. There are no Jews involved in any of this, but no one accuses African-Americans of hating Muslims. Clearly, the claim of Black hatred of Jewish slave sellers as the reason for this sudden rash of attacks is not merely fallacious but false on its fqce.
As for Blacks hating Jews in general, partly it is erasing the Jewish history of support for Black rights in this country, and partly it is just an easy bigotry, with 2.5 millennia of lies to provide all the excuses anyone could need — starting with the ancient Greeks. And of course, everyone assumes Jews are easy targets who won’t hit back, a characteristic beloved of bullies everywhere.
Which explains why Blacks, Hispanics, whites, and Middle Eastern-descent Muslims have been caught on video attacking Jews in America over the past few years, and also attacking Asians and elderly whites. To blame it only on African-Americans and cite only Jews as victims shows either racism or ignorance of the facts.
Do you mean the 1619 Project, swksvolFF? The one pushed by the New York Times as a rewrite of American history centered on the arrival of the first African slave to our shores in that year? Or perhaps you are referring to the 1620 Project, in which pretty much the entirety of American history experts, from left to right, united to explain exactly how wrong the 1619 Project was?
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Yeah, making fun of it, 420 being the time for kids to smoke pot.
Or they could look it up, and see it was the golden age for North African slave roundups in the Mediterranean and Arabian slave roundups on the Horn of Africa. The Americans and Polynesians were having their fun too.
The 1619 people are Oedipal wannabes who purposefully make themselves blind in order to garner sympathy.
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btw - took me ONE search to knock that Jooo-haterz bullshit out. Keep that in mind
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and yeah, I'm that Catholic Jew-supporter. Bring it.
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As they say, Frank G, “Never argue with an engineer, for your thoughts are crunchy and go well with ketchup.” ;-)
swksvolFF, I read your posts knowing there are referents I’m missing. It’s like reading JosephMendiola without his idiosyncratic abbreviations and ALLCAPS. Still, it keeps my mind much nimbler than it would be otherwise.
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Moslems! How many timesdo I havta tell youguys? It's dirty tribal moslemnicious afri-cans and ass scratching islami mohammedoons? Always!
If the Jews ever traded slaves it musta been because the moslems were pushing 'em as a viable product around the world!
More than half the problems with the world wouldn't be there if the moslems weren't there! Humanity has been crippled ever since the Christians lost the goddamn holy war and shamelessly went on to preach secularity.
Moslems!! They have everybody wasting time and money and resources on them and give humanity nothing but constant heartache! With moslems all dead or xinjianged and their fucking i-slam buried, mankind could probably have reached the stars by now.
And what's this nonsense about Ishmael that keeps popping up? Ishmael has nothing to do with anything. That ass Josephus pitched the half baked idea that Ishmael may be the root of A-rabs. Lazy seminarian preachers and fools pushing their ideas as revelation! And probably deferring to... That's right! Moslems! Moslems hugging the pope! Moslems in houses of commons! Moslems with their fucking fucketty fcuk mosques!
Maybe the globalists will rid us of them. Once they've swept aside this goddamn democracy thing. Human rights means nothing to them anyway. They see the moslem as a tool. It's globalists or china alone against the dirt. Nobody else seems to get it. Yaaagh! Slavery! Why can't people get over the fact that they're also a commodity? A 35 year old still paying off some college loan and just starting alimony is a slave! A guy with a nice empowering uniform ordered to fire on his own nationalist countrymen, to lock them up... he's a slave! People will always be slaves to something. Banks are slavers, gummints are slavers. What's to get so het up about? So once some businessmen dealt in indentured servants. Big fucking deal!
It's moslems actually rounding up humans and herding them with their necks in chains and selling them for use 'n waste. And they're doing it today! Everybody quit the historic boo hoo hoo and go sl@y some moslems!!
[Resist] Charity begins at home is a universal axiom that wealthy Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts, residents apparently do not subscribe to.
Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) sent two planes with 50 illegal aliens to the exclusive island community Wednesday, which stunned island residents. Within days, almost all of the newly arrived border jumpers had been bussed to a Cape Cod military base.
"States like Massachusetts, New York and California will better facilitate the care of these individuals who they have invited into our country by incentivizing illegal immigration through their designation as ’sanctuary states’ and support for the Biden administration’s open border policies," DeSantis spokeswoman Taryn Fenske said.
President Joe Biden and former President Barack Obama won commanding majorities of island voters in their respective presidential campaigns.
Yet, when the 50 illegal aliens landed at Martha’s Vineyard, a community tourism Twitter account called their arrival a "humanitarian crisis."
[Breitbart] Martha’s Vineyard residents are proclaiming that they have been "enriched" by 50 illegal aliens who arrived on two flights sent by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) and were swiftly deported to a military base less than 48 hours after arriving.
When 50 illegal aliens were flown onto the elite coastal island, home to the nation’s wealthiest and most well-connected, officials declared a "humanitarian crisis" and Gov. Charlie Baker (R) deported the new arrivals to Joint Base Cape Cod.
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In addition Biden was greeted by crowds chanting "Lets Go Brandon!" while his motorcade was driving thru London.
The guy is so demented he doesn't even know he a worldwide laughingstock.
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A monarch's funeral is supposed to be a big deal I guess. Happens once a century, got to be remembered well and all. They probably didn't want some Biden to come fuck it up. Imagine an idiot like him sitting up close mumbling or just fiddling around. Trying to sniff the Duchess' hair.
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To be fair. There were a *lot* of people who had precedence over the U.S. President. For example the heads of all the commonwealth nations (Like Canada, Australia, etc...) which the Queen was the nominal 'head of state'. Then you have the royal family, etc... This was a British event - not an international event.
but still.... Fourteenth row... I can see 9th or 10th but 14th....
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NN2N1 he was seated there because he was too good to take the bus like most other leaders and took the Beast, got caught in traffic and was late. Don't they know who he is?
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Late? Seriously? He was late to his own SOTU, but that was his thing to be late for.
Or is it, the only thing worse than being late, is being early and socializing?
"He kept grabbing the wheel and steering into the right lane!"
Former Trump aide Steve Bannon has claimed President Biden's Cancer Moonshot is actually a cover to create genetically engineered 'Humans 2.0'
He suggested that 'replacement theory' may well be happening under the Cancer Moonshot
The Great Replacement is a white nationalist far-right conspiracy theory that suggests white populations are being demographically and culturally replaced
Earlier this month Bannon handed himself over to authorities in New York State to face fraud charges over his 'We Build the Wall' not-for-profit scheme
Last week President Joe Biden signed orders to push more government dollars to the U.S. biotechnology industry
Biden's Cancer Moonshot aims to promote and create new treatments and cut the death rate from cancer by at least 50% over the next 25 years
#3
We all joke that 1984 was not a how-to manual but that misses the point because they are actually aiming for the Time Machine as an end goal with Morlocks and Eloi.
Oh, it's Epps again? I thought he was told not to use this number?
[Breitbart] A whistleblower has accused the FBI’s Washington Field Office of using cases related to the January 6 U.S. Capitol riot to "overstate" the threat of "domestic violent extremism" in America, according to Judiciary Committee ranking member Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH). "Overstate the threat"....formerly known as a Disinformation Campaign.
The whistleblower alleged the FBI office did not follow standard investigative practices for the January 6 cases when it moved the cases to various local Field Offices around the country based on where the case subjects were from, Jordan revealed in a letter addressed to FBI Director Christopher Wray on Monday.
January 6 cases "should all be officially led by the WFO [Washington Field Office] and categorized as WFO cases," according to the letter, but instead, a "task force" dispatched instructions to open January 6 investigations to local field offices nationwide. We'll take it from here, Agent Winstead. It's very important we keep the insurrection narrative alive.
Those local offices received the cases, making it look as if they were conducting the investigations on the cases, when, in reality, the Washington Field Office continued to conduct the bulk of the work, according to the letter. Yes, that would be the Mar-A-Lago Raider (Fok Trump at any cost) Detachment.
The whistleblower told Jordan:
The manipulative casefile practice creates false and misleading crime statistics. Instead of hundreds of investigations stemming from a single, black swan incident at the Capitol, FBI and DOJ officials point to significant increases in domestic violent extremism and terrorism around the United States.
Jordan noted in the letter, "Such an artificial case categorization scheme allows FBI leadership to misleadingly point to ’significant’ increases in DVE threats nationwide," which supports a narrative being perpetuated by the Biden administration.
The whistleblower also alleged that January 6 cases were inappropriately taking priority over other cases, citing an instance of being "told that child sexual abuse material investigations were no longer an FBI priority and should be referred to local law enforcement agencies," according to the letter. Children? No worries. We have hundreds, possibly thousands of replacement children arriving daily.
Read a copy of the letter below:
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It's all falling apart Harrison. Unless you can find those depositions, we're pulling everyone over to the 'Nationwide Violent Extremism Epidemic' project.
[NYPOST] One third of the US Senate has signed a letter asking Attorney General Merrick Garland ...Attorney General of the U.S., who classifies indignant parents as domestic terrorists. The is the respected legal scholar Obama nominated for the Supreme Court... to give US Attorney David Weiss the powers of a special counsel to investigate first son Hunter Biden ...son of President Joe: cashiered from the Navy, a crackhead, wheeler dealer, leg humper, horn dog, and general all around ne'er do well. We're supposed to feel sorry for him... ’s foreign business dealings.
In the Monday letter, the 33 Republicans cited the "politicization" of the Justice Department, a lack of public trust in the authorities, and recent whistleblower allegations of a coverup within the FBI ...Formerly one of the world's premier criminal investigation organizations, something for a nation to be proud of. Now it's a political arm of the Deep State oligarchy that is willing to trump up charges, suppress evidence, or take out insurance policies come election time... of evidence and testimony damaging to the first son.
"Given the politicization of the DOJ under your watch and the importance of avoiding any appearance of impropriety, the undersigned request that you provide U.S. Attorney Weiss the full protections and authorities of a special counsel," the letter says.
"This is one important action that you can take that will go a long way in restoring faith in our governmental institutions."
Weiss, the US attorney for Delaware and a Trump administration holdover, has been leading the investigation of Hunter Biden, who recently paid the IRS ...the Internal Revenue Service; that office of the United States government that collects taxes and persecutes the regime's political enemies... about $2 million in back taxes — using either a loan or gift from Hollywood attorney Kevin Morris — in an attempt to avoid prosecution.
Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) organized the letter, which was signed by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell ...Senate minority leader from Kentucky. A politician's politician, Mitch is smarter than he's given credit for, not as smart as he thinks he is. He is married to former education secretary Elaine Chao, whose father has extensive shipping interests, including a company in China, which makes sense since he's Chinese. He is sometimes maligned as Cocaine Mitch because a few million bucks' worth of the drug was once found on one of his father-in-law's ships in Colombia, which is kind of a tenuous assertion, to say the least... (R-Ky.) and a diverse group of others.
[NYPOST] Gov. Kathy Hochul’s "emergency" move to overpay for COVID tests sold by a big donor looks even more squalid in the face of news that Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, paid half as much for the same tests.
The Times-Union reported Friday that California paid 45% less for the same COVID-19 tests that New York bought from a company tied to $300,000 in donations to the Hochul campaign — a firm that pre-pandemic sold electronic hoverboards.
Cutting out the contributions-giving middleman might have saved $286 million out of the $637 million in total payments to Digital Gadgets, whose founder Charlie Tebele and his family gave $70,000 to Hochul’s campaign before landing the contract and another $227,000 afterward.
Hochul was able to do this without normal review (her team took the deal in less than a day) under emergency powers that she kept extending month after month until recently, after news of this deal made headlines.
Not that it’s her only pay-to-play scandal: Hochul’s giveaways to the Buffalo Bills’ owners and to a Penn Station-area developer also reek.
Attorney General Letitia James and Comptroller Tom DiNapoli ought to be looking into all of this, along with the gov’s naked appeals to special interests for campaign cash. Heck, since James warned businesses, big and small, against price-gouging, she should be probing Digital Gadgets as well.
Then again, James and DiNapoli have both endorsed Hochul, a fellow Democrat. Consider their silence here fresh proof that a one-party state is a corrupt one.
[NYPOST] Radical progressives are looking to turn the state’s highest court into a rubber stamp for their agenda. The nakedly ideological drive is an assault on the independent judiciary, a bulwark of democracy.
On Wednesday, City & State reported that a top gay Democratic club wrote Gov. Kathy Hochul to condemn the openly gay judge who now serves as acting chief on the Court of Appeals. It’s just part of the unseemly effort to muscle Hochul into nominating a lefty to replace departing Chief Judge Janet DiFiore.
"Although Judge [Anthony] Cannataro is openly gay, he does not represent our values," wrote Jim Owles Liberal Democratic Club prez and LGBTQ activist muppet Allen Roskoff. That clearly means he’s not guaranteed to ram the entire lefty agenda, from handcuffing cops to mandating children’s "right" to gender-transition surgery to protecting the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement, down the public’s throat.
From the moment DiFiore announced her retirement, progressives rushed to denounce her and the high court’s so-called "conservative" majority, which quite rightly stood by the trial-court judge who struck down state Democrats’ blatantly unconstitutional gerrymander. Their gripes extend to other cases where the court didn’t make the "right" decision in cases involving tenants, immigrants colonists, criminal defendants and the green agenda.
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.
...retired New York City police captain, member of the New York State Senate, first Black Brooklyn borough president, law and order Dem after a brief fling with the Publicans. The New York Times isn't fond of him, suspecting he may not actually be black...
[Resist] Charity begins at home is a universal axiom that wealthy 
[Breitbart] Martha’s Vineyard residents are proclaiming that they have been "enriched" by 50 illegal aliens who arrived on two flights sent by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) and were swiftly deported to a military base less than 48 hours after arriving.
...Senate minority leader from Kentucky. A politician's politician, Mitch is smarter than he's given credit for, not as smart as he thinks he is. He is married to former education secretary Elaine Chao, whose father has extensive shipping interests, including a company in China, which makes sense since he's Chinese. He is sometimes maligned as 
