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Democrats are panicking and weak-kneed Republicans are outraged, but House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) is defending his decision to give Tucker Carlson access to the video evidence of the events of January 6. And he clearly isn’t shy about calling out the media and the Democrats who claim to be triggered by it.
The media has falsely claimed that Tucker Carlson downplayed Officer Brian Sicknick’s death by showing evidence that the was up and walking around — as opposed to the false narrative that Sicknick had been killed by rioters — and that Carlson was “whitewashing” the Capitol riot.
When asked on Tuesday if he regretted giving Carlson the footage, McCarthy said no.
“I said at the very beginning: transparency. What I wanted to produce for everyone was exactly what I said, so people could look at it and see what went on that day.”
McCarthy hit all the right points, including that the January 6 committee was one-sided, only sharing footage that fit their preferred narrative. He noted that he worked with Capitol Police to ensure there were no security issues with the footage being released. McCarthy also pointed out that questions of security were hypocritical because CNN exposed the secret location members were taken to that day. “I don’t even know, from the point of view of security, if we can ever be taken there again,” McCarthy lamented.
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In another huge instance of financial censorship, PNC Financial Services Group Inc. suddenly ended its business relationship with MxM, Donald Trump Jr.’s news aggregation app company. The app was designed to be a more balanced alternative to the likes of Apple and Google News, according to Fox News Digital. As Trump Jr. explained, he wants to help create a “parallel economy” to the woke-enslaved major corporations, including Big Media. PNC Bank doesn’t seem to agree with that vision.
MxM News, launched in 2022 by Don Jr. and former Trump spokesman Taylor Budowich, is owned by ROCDIGITAL, LLC. The company insists this is more woke financial censorship targeting conservative entities. Budowich told Fox Digital he only discovered their company account with PNC had been terminated when he tried to pay vendor invoices at a Florida branch office. He explained, “The teller said he was unable to complete the transfers as the account had been closed and the balance had been zeroed out.”
Budowich continued, “After being told to call a generic helpline, I was informed by the PNC representative that per the terms and conditions, PNC reserves the right to re-evaluate their business relationships at any time and terminate accounts without cause.” The phrase “without cause” seems significant—it indicates that PNC itself knows there was no reason to terminate the account. “Woke corporations are using their terms and conditions like a guillotine over the head of every conservative entrepreneur,” Budowich concluded.
Don Jr. explained that MxM was created to “provide curated stories that are being silenced and or suppressed by big tech and the mainstream media.” The app is set to expand to include more localized news, too, per Fox. MxM includes articles from more mainstream or left-leaning sources such as ABC, NPR, and AP, along with conservative sites such as The Daily Caller, Just the News, and The Washington Free Beacon.
”However, as this shows, it’s not just the media that’s become plagued by the woke agenda,” Trump Jr. told Fox Digital. “It’s banks, it’s entire corporate America.” He called the PNC account termination “a minor setback for MxM News that we were able to quickly resolve.” Still, he added, “But what about every other start-up or small business that wants to pursue a values-based company? This should be investigated, and it should be illegal to discriminate based on political affiliation.”
PNC claimed to Fox that account closures have nothing to do with political affiliation. “As a national bank, we recognize and respect that our customers and our employees hold a wide range of political beliefs,” PNC said. PNC has not explained why it did end the account, however.
Banks have drawn criticism for closing a number of conservative accounts in the last few years, Fox Digital said. A Florida bank closed Donald Trump’s account in January 2021, for instance, and MyPillow CEO and Trump ally Mike Lindell had two banks cut ties with him in January 2022.
Hence, Donald Trump Jr. insisted to Fox Digital, “We need a patriot economy. We need a parallel economy to fight back.”
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While Facebook shut down dissenting opinions regarding the COVID vaccine and continues to censor patriotic conservatives who reject the Left’s agenda by supporting Trump and free societies, the Big Tech giant has shown us who it thinks is deserving of its platform. Facebook has been caught creating pages for the Islamic State and Al-Qaeda. According to a watchdog group Tech Transparency Project (TTP): “The company [FB] could potentially be held responsible for these pages as Facebook not just hosting but actually creating them.”
“BOMBSHELL: Facebook Caught Creating Pages for ISIS, Al-Qaeda,” United with Israel, February 20, 2023:
Facebook is no stranger to controversy, permitting Jew-hatred to fester and giving a free pass to anti-Israel lies and antisemitic propaganda.
The social media giant is now in hot water due to the technology it uses to promote content, which a watchdog group called the Tech Transparency Project (TTP) says automatically creates home pages for U.S.-designated terror groups.
Among the TTP report’s bombshell findings is evidence alleging that Facebook created over 100 pages for ISIS (Islamic State), as well as pages for other terror organizations, including the group behind the 9/11 attacks on the U.S., Al-Qaeda.
TTP reported that Facebook creates the pages based on its algorithm, automatically generating them when users add the terror groups to their profiles. The platform’s so-called ban on the groups apparently did little to prevent the automatic process that generated the terror group pages.
“Some of these automatically generated pages have been living on Facebook for years, racking up likes and posts with terrorist propaganda and imagery,” reported the Jerusalem Post in its coverage of the TTP’s findings. “The company could potentially be held responsible for these pages as Facebook not just hosting but actually creating them.”
This is only the latest chapter in Facebook’s struggles to keep hate off its platform.
Over the last several years, Facebook has been a hotbed for anti-Israel lies and antisemitic propaganda.
At the end of 2022, a post with tens of thousands of likes on Facebook claimed that the Palestinians aren’t playing in the World Cup because Israel is “murdering” their players. The claim was demonstrably false and had zero basis in reality….
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Childless comedian (loosely defined) Chelsea Handler, 47, produced a sad propaganda film for The Daily Show encouraging young women to eschew motherhood in favor of private jet flights to Paris for a quick croissant (because obviously, that’s within the grasp of her middle and working-class audience) and meaningless sex with internet strangers.
This is the stuff of a fulfilling life.
“The weightlessness of my existence has granted me superhuman powers,” she explains.
Handler’s existential despair is palpable behind her clown-like smile. But she forces it anyway because she has an ideology to push.
I refuse to be bullied by vapid celebrities airing their internal emotional conflicts for attention and social brownie points into believing that, on balance, in general, childless women are as happy as their peers with children. It’s simply not true.
Statistics bear out the reality: liberal women (also most likely to be childless among any demographic) are plagued by mental illness at significantly higher rates than non-liberal women. There may be many reasons for this disparity, but childlessness has to be at the top of the list, in my estimation.
Somehow, if you won’t go along with the third-wave feminist line that contradicting the biological imperative to reproduce is the key to lifelong happiness, you are tarred and feathered, of course, as a misogynist. Polite disagreements are tantamount to hate crimes.
Discourse is anathema to Social Justice™ ideology; censorship and smears are more their style. So there are no brakes on the crazy train because no amount of logic or reality is permitted to interfere with the narrative.
Seymour Hersh cracks open the Nord Stream 2 story with a bombshell report. Devil worshipping pop stars rack up Grammys. Is American culture on a Highway to Hell?
Selwyn Duke checks in to take a closer look, as Daniel Natal breaks down the news with Rebecca Terrell for today’s episode of The New American TV with Rebecca Terrell.
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Why would Emmy-award-winning sportscaster Michele Tafoya walk away from her successful TV career? In this “Stories of Us” video, Michele shares her remarkable achievements in sports journalism, the struggle to start her family, and never apologizing for her values. Don’t miss it!
Michele Tafoya - From The NFL Sideline To The Political Arena
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Just before midnight on Tuesday, DirecTV shut down Newsmax, a move the satellite service portrays as part of a contract dispute. Newsmax and many others don’t see it that way.
“This is a blatant act of political discrimination and censorship against Newsmax,” said Newsmax CEO Christopher Ruddy. “The most extreme liberal channels, even with tiny ratings, get fees from AT&T’s DirecTV, but Newsmax and OAN [One America News Network] need to be de-platformed.”
Last year, House Democrats Anna Eshoo and Jerry McNerney pressed cable and satellite providers about their decision to carry Fox News, OAN, and Newsmax. The Democrats accused the conservative outlets of serving as “misinformation rumor mills and conspiracy theory hotbeds that produce content that leads to real harm.”
Fox, the most-watched cable news channel in 2020, responded that “For individual members of Congress to highlight political speech they do not like and demand cable distributors engage in viewpoint discrimination sets a terrible precedent.” Newsmax responded in a similar fashion.
“The House Democrats’ attack on free speech and basic First Amendment rights should send chills down the spines of all Americans,” Newsmax said in a statement. “Newsmax reported fairly and accurately on allegations and claims made by both sides during the recent election contest. We did not see that same balanced coverage when CNN and MSNBC pushed for years the Russian collusion hoax, airing numerous claims and interviews with Democrat leaders that turned out to be patently false.”
The Democrats’ letter prompted DirecTV to deplatform OAN, followed by Newsmax on Tuesday. That brought a quick response from Newsmax host Sebastian Gorka.
“Yeah, absolutely stunning,” Gorka said. “I mean, a more blatant example of politically-motivated censorship is hard to imagine. And this coming as we have all the revelations, thanks to Elon Musk on Twitter, of government-sponsored censorship. Is this something being done in league with the White House, with the DNC? We don’t know, but we know the facts of the case, that Newsmax was asking for fair remuneration, which is exactly the same for the top 75 channels on DirecTV, 22 of which, 22 are hardcore left-wing news channels.”
According to Gorka, DirecTV shut down Newsmax, “because Newsmax is growing in popularity, it’s growing in influence, and they want to shut down a voice that isn’t the mainstream lying media, but actually brings the facts to all of our viewers.” The shutdown of Newsmax also brought a response from Sen. Rick Scott, Florida Republican.
“This is censorship by companies like AT&T of conservative voices,” Scott said. “They’re trying to shut down our voices.”
As the Washington Examiner reports, Texas Republican Wesley Hunt wrote a letter telling DirecTV he was “deeply troubled by DirecTV’s decision to remove Newsmax from their lineup of channels.” According to Hunt, the de-platforming was “the latest development in the Left’s ongoing campaign to purge voices they disagree with from the public sphere” and would “cut off tens of millions of viewers who rely on Newsmax for their news and information.”
Newsmax streams live on YouTube but for supporters in Congress that’s not enough.
“So we need to hold hearings here,” Sen. Scott told reporters. “We’ve got to fight for this. The American public has to show up.”
*Action You Can Take to Fight AT&T DirecTV’s Censorship:
1. If you’re a DirecTV customer call them toll-free at877-763-9762 and demand they bring NEWSMAX back on air or you can CANCEL!
[When you speak to a live operator, let them know you’re aware NEWSMAX’s live stream is ending soon on other platforms, so unless you get it on DIRECTV you will have to cancel their service.]
If you are an AT&T customer for any of their products or services, call them and demand they end their censorship of NEWSMAX or you will cancel. Call AT&T toll-free at 888-855-2338
2. Call your Member of Congress or Senator at202-224-3121 and demand they stop AT&T and DirecTV’s censorship of conservative media like NEWSMAX!
3. Go to Newsmax’s online petition and get more info at: iWantNewsmax.com
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Adam Klotz, a 37-year-old weatherman on Fox News, came to the defense of an elderly man who was being harassed and burned by a pack of vicious teens — and took a savage beating for his trouble.
Klotz got on the subway around 12:45 Sunday morning to head home after watching the Giants lose at a Manhattan bar. On the train, he saw that an elderly gentleman sitting nearby was being harassed by a pack of teens. “There’s a group of teens, and one of them’s lighting a joint, and just, with that lighter, they put it in the guy’s hair,” Klotz related during a Monday appearance on Fox & Friends. “And his hair went up — pffft! — like a matchbook.”
But of the 25 to 30 passengers in the car, Klotz was apparently the only one who was moved to defend the man. “And I was like, ‘Whoa, you can’t do that. That’s not cool,'” recounted the manly meteorologist. “And that’s all it took. And then I was the focus of all their attention.”
The unruly kids began taunting him, and he attempted to move away from them. But they followed him to another car and punched him. He finally went to get off the train several stops later, but then, when the train doors opened, the whole group “bum-rushed” him.
“And suddenly, I’m on the ground. I’m getting kicked in the side, I’m getting wailed on. They’re like, ‘Put him to sleep, put him to sleep!’ They were trying to knock me out,” explained Klotz. “And then, once you’re unconscious and you’re getting punched, there’s like no defense.” Klotz used his arms to protect his head and wound up getting kicked and punched in the ribs and knee.
The weatherman said no one tried to intervene as the beatdown was in progress, though people were quick to help once the rabid pack moved on. He said he “gets it,” though — “Look what happens when you step up for somebody. I tried to step up for somebody and this is what just happened to me. Why would anybody want to do this to themselves?”
Klotz estimated the gang numbered seven or eight kids between 15 and 17 years of age. The NYPD quickly nabbed three of them — and just as quickly released them to their parents without filing charges.
When asked how the lack of consequences for his assailants made him feel, Klotz said, “I want there to be something done. It’s more like, why is the weather guy on the train trying to stop crime in the middle of the night? Like, where is Eric Adams? Where’s the city? Why am I doing this? Why is it up to me?”
Klotz is clearly in considerable pain in a video he posted to Instagram in the aftermath of the attack. In the video, he claims he was beaten by “children.”
“Where are the parents?” Klotz demands rhetorically between sobs of cynical laughter. “God … don’t — don’t — don’t let your kids come beat me up in the middle of the night again, please. Parents! Watch your children.”
On Fox & Friends, Klotz vented his frustration that all the consequences of the assault will fall on him, the victim, who must recover from injuries and pay a deductible out-of-pocket for his hospitalization, while neither the thugs who beat him nor their parents will go to jail or pay a dime. He is currently considering filing a criminal complaint but is hesitant to push for punishment for the youths, for what he sees as systemic failures.
Klotz’s instinct to protect children’s futures is admirable. When asked by Fox News host Steve Doocy if he would file a complaint, which would allow the city to consider whether to charge the hooligans, the meteorologist hesitated before answering, “I don’t know. I want — I want someone to be held responsible, but really what I want is some sort of change. I don’t want this to happen to somebody else, and I don’t think necessarily, just, these kids getting in trouble — like, where’s the structural change?” Klotz called on Mayor Adams to put more cops in the subways.
“I would love it if some sort of change happened out of this,” he said.
Unfortunately, in New York State and NYC’s consequence-free gangstas’ paradise, nothing is going to change any time soon. Why would it?
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The New York Times has long ago abandoned any pretense of being an actual news source and has settled into its role as the foremost propaganda arm of the hard Left, capitalizing upon the fact that there is still a considerable number of people in the U.S. and around the world who still think that the Times can be trusted to report events impartially and accurately. In reality, the only thing the Times is good for is revealing what the political and media elites are thinking, and a Friday opinion piece dropped a bombshell, in the Times’ muted, bloodless Voice-of-the-Ages manner: the Leftist establishment is through with Old Joe Biden. Watch for him to be replaced as the Democratic presidential nominee in 2024, and he could be gone even sooner.
The author of the “Guest Essay” was Jonathan Alter, a respected far-Left intellectual who has written hagiographic biographies of some of the Left’s foremost saints, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jimmy Carter, and Barack Obama. But don’t expect Old Joe to take his place as the fourth member of Alter’s personal woke Mount Rushmore anytime soon: Alter once admired the serial liar who is currently pretending to be president but no more. The classified documents scandal has the Leftist “historian” searching for a new hero.
Alter begins by lamenting past glories: “Remember the iconic image of a smiling Joe Biden in his 1967 Corvette Stingray? It conjured charming Uncle Joe, a retro-cool guy who’d been around the track and knew how to handle it.” But all that is gone now: “Four months after President Biden called Donald Trump’s mishandling of classified documents ‘irresponsible,’ that vintage car — parked at the president’s home in Delaware next to his own boxes containing classified material — has been transformed into a shiny symbol of hypocrisy. If you went into a G.O.P. whataboutism lab and asked for a perfect gaffe, you’d come out with the president snapping last week to a Fox News reporter, ‘My Corvette is in a locked garage.’ Well, the storage room at Mar-a-Lago is locked, too.” Ouch!
Alter quickly takes pains to reassure his easy marks, that is, New York Times readers, that he is certain that Biden’s classified documents scandal is trivial compared to Trump’s but laments that the general public is too stupid to recognize this: “Many voters with better things to do with their time than parse the nuances of presidential record keeping may casually conclude that both men are careless, lying politicians.” Or even, perish the thought, that one of them is the target of a relentless and now eight-year-long witch hunt, while the other gets protection from compromised, corrupt, relentlessly politicized government agencies.
But the real problem with Biden’s documents scandal, according to Alter, is that it torpedoes the faux president’s chances of reelection. Alter may be looking for a side hustle as a stand-up comedian, as he writes, presumably with a straight face, that the astonishingly corrupt, morally compromised, venal, cheerfully mendacious individual who postures as president in his Potemkin Oval Office has now harmed his “core political brand of honor and decency.” And so Old Joe has to go: Biden’s “sharp ethical contrast” (stop laughing!) “with Mr. Trump has been dulled,” and this “complicates the president’s expected re-election campaign — and could even short-circuit it.”
Alter tells us this despite the fact that he obligingly avows that Biden’s core constituency is made up of people who are so gullible that they still fall for Old Joe’s act: “Most Democrats still think Mr. Biden is honest, and they view his accomplishments on the economy, climate, infrastructure and defending democracy as far more significant than this lapse.” Skyrocketing inflation? Rapidly creeping authoritarianism and sinister efforts, unprecedented in American history, to frame his principal opponent for a crime and criminalize political dissent? A fictional Southern border? Forget it all! Old Joe has “accomplishments”!
Of course, Jonathan Alter would also have you believe that “the Obama-Biden administration set an exceptionally high ethical standard and usually met it,” and postures about “Mr. Obama’s scandal-less White House” without mentioning the fact that the Chicago Saint had a “wingman” for an attorney general and a cachet as the first black president that meant that he would never be prosecuted no matter what he did, even supply weapons to drug cartels. Alter’s shoddy reasoning and reflexive partisanship aside, however, the real significance of his op-ed is that it signals that the curtain is closing on Biden’s clownish and disastrous star turn as the presidential figurehead. Whether his replacement will be The Cackler or some other socialist ideologue remains to be seen.
Ron Klain is reportedly planning to leave his position as Joe Biden’s chief of staff in the coming weeks. According to the New York Times, Klain has been quietly informing colleagues of his intention to retire since the midterm elections, claiming he is ready to move on.
Klain’s retirement is likely to be announced soon after Biden delivers his State of the Union address next month, but there is currently no word of a potential replacement. Klain’s tenure as Biden’s chief of staff has been a rocky one.
When things get tough for a sitting president, the Chief of Staff is a common scapegoat, and Klain’s departure would be a significant step for the White House to change course in the hopes of salvaging Joe Biden’s troubled presidency.
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Conservatives have been calling for the defunding of National Public Radio (NPR) for years now because of its blatant political bias, but now they have a new reason to deprive the news outlet of its federal funding.
This week, NPR published a misleading and disturbing essay by Maia Kobabe, the author of Gender Queer, a controversial graphic memoir documenting Kobabe’s journey to coming out as “nonbinary.” In addition to being “nonbinary,” Kobabe has nonsensical “preferred pronouns.”
Kobabe laments in her NPR essay that Gender Queer has become the most challenged book in public school libraries. “Several conservative politicians made book banning a major talking point of their campaigns,” she wrote. “There were so many challenges in such quick succession before the end of the year that I literally could not keep track of them all.”
By Kobabe’s telling, the book is challenged because of discrimination. “I was obviously already aware that queer, trans, and nonbinary narratives often receive pushback.” But this is incredibly misleading. In fact, Gender Queer is most often challenged because it contains graphic depictions of minors participating in sex acts — a detail Kobabe conveniently omits in her essay.
She was, however, questioned about the graphic nature of some of the illustrations in an interview with NPR. “Let me ask you this. Some of the criticism is about how explicit the book is. There are some graphic panels where you’re describing some of your sexual encounters. Did you consider doing less graphic versions of those scenes?” NPR’s Claire Murashima asked.
“You know, I really didn’t,” Kobabe said. “I drew as much as I felt like I needed to tell the story that I was trying to tell and get the points across that I was trying to make.”
Kobabe insists that her book could have been even more explicit. Opponents of the book say it is pornographic — and having seen screenshots of the illustrations, I can say this characterization is correct — which means it has no business in public libraries or school libraries. That NPR is promoting this book and giving a platform to the author, who is clearly a groomer, is disturbing. So, yes, NPR is promoting pornography aimed at grooming young children.
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Within 24 hours of PJ Media sending an inquiry to Wendy Suares asking why the male student who beat up two girls in the girls’ bathroom that he was using in violation of state law wasn’t “newsworthy” according to her tweets, Suares had a change of heart. The Fox 25 reporter is now fervently working as the PR arm of Edmond Memorial High School, which got caught covering up the assault of two girls in the bathroom by a boy posing as a girl.
Angela Grunewald, the school’s superintendent, has been under fire for not alerting parents to the attack that happened in October. After the national media reported her failure, she quickly released a video explanation. Suares, ever helpful to prop up the approved narrative, breathlessly tweeted the statement out as if Grunewald had done the right thing by releasing this statement… two months late.
Grunewald can be seen in the video smiling weirdly and shrugging as she tries to downplay the seriousness of the injuries of the victims.
“We’ve been experiencing a calm and peaceful school year,” she opened, unironically sounding like a CNN anchor describing riots as “fiery but mostly peaceful.”
“On October 26 there was a fight at Edmond Memorial High School in the girls’ bathroom that involved a transgender student,” she continued while weirdly shrugging and mugging for the camera with a gleeful look on her face. Grunewald claimed that the male student was new to the school and when he was enrolled he presented as female and his parent enrolled him as a female. Grunewald says the school didn’t know the student’s biological sex.
“Birth certificates are not required to start school,” she went on to explain, still oddly jubilant. “In the fight, there were what would technically be called minor injuries,” she said describing a possible concussion and other head wounds. She quickly followed up with “it doesn’t matter, that’s not okay,” after clearly attempting to downplay the injuries.
Grunewald went on to say that the student was disciplined for breaking the Oklahoma state law for using a bathroom that did not coincide with the biological sex and for fighting. The student is also no longer attending the school, but Grunewald did not specify if he was expelled or removed voluntarily.
“You send your child to us every day,” continued the superintendent, claiming the teachers and administrators “want nothing more than to keep the children safe.” Grunewald then went on to thank the teachers for protecting the children in the school while weirdly seeming to forget that two of them are currently injured because they were unsafe in the bathroom. She did not give any update on the victims and how they are doing.
Oklahoma’s Secretary of Education, Ryan Walters, has launched an investigation into Edmond schools to find out how the assault was not reported to parents and to make sure the schools are following the law. “It has come to light that at Edmond public schools a boy claiming to be a girl went into a bathroom and assaulted two young girls. This will not be tolerated in Oklahoma.” Walters might want to start his investigation by calling Michael Grande, a former school board candidate who has already had to sue the school with a group of parents for civil rights violations.
There are many questions that need to be answered by this school, and chief among them is why they waited until today to alert the parents of their district of this crime. PJ Media spoke to Grande, who ran for the Edmond School Board and he provided us with emails that showed the school had no intention of informing the community of the incident.
Grande sent an email on December 8 to school board member Marcus Jones asking why all the parents were not informed when the incident occurred. Jones responded on December 12.
I have included Dr. Grunewald in this email to give further details on the district guidelines for mass parent notifications. I can say in the Edmond Memorial incident all parties’ parents were notified about the incident. That being said, the District is constantly striving to keep parents informed. As a Board Member I have and will continue to protect, support, and cheer for our EPS students as they matriculate through the schools.
Grunewald then sent a response to Grande on the same day.
I would be glad to share information on how it is determined when to send mass communication to all parents. Anytime the whole student body or a large part of the student body is involved, we send out a mass letter. This is because the communication needs are too great to communicate individually. If an incident happens that only involves a small group of students and not the entire school, those parents are contacted individually. Very seldom would a fight require mass communication. Maybe if it happened in the cafeteria or something like that. It is important that mass communication is only sent for critical events. If we sent mass communication out on all of the events that happen at a school, parents would get so many notifications they would miss any important updates.
Grunewald mentioned another incident where the school had sent out two alerts to all parents regarding an incident that did not happen on school grounds and did not involve student safety. The policy on what gets a district-wide notification seems unclear and possibly unhelpful.
I’m assuming the example you mention at North was from last Friday when the school was placed on lockdown because of police activity in close proximity to the school. We sent out two notifications that day. The first one was sent right as the lockdown was occurring simply stating that the school was going on lock down, all students were safe, and more information would be coming soon. A little after 1:00 the second email went out letting parents know the lock down was over.
The incident that spurred the lockdown was described by the administration in detail.
Surely, these school officials know that parents are deeply concerned that girls’ safety is threatened by bathroom policies that allow males access to them. They should have known that a violent assault with echoes of the Loudoun County, Va. scandal would bolster the parents who had come to them with those concerns at previous meetings.
Grande reported that at the August board meeting when the bathroom policy had to be changed due to state law, the school’s human resources director admitted that they’ve “been dealing with these issues for some time,” as he said to the board who looked like they were holding court at the United Nations like foreign heads of state in lavish surroundings and not a suburban school district meeting.
Prior to the governor enacting the law, there was no written policy, but emails show that the school board was allowing students to use any bathroom they wanted.
An Edmond parent emailed board member Lee Ann Kuhlman in March of this year asking about the bathroom policy.
Kuhlman responded and confirmed that the district had been allowing students to use the bathroom of their choice regardless of biological sex for at least the last ten years.
The parent followed up and asked if the district had ever received any complaints about boys in the girls’ bathrooms and received no response.
This story is continuing to develop, and PJ Media will bring you updates as they happen.
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A male student who identifies as a girl walked into an Oklahoma high school girls’ bathroom and beat two girls nearly unconscious, according to a police report from October. No one in the community found out about it until this week.
You can thank Oklahoma City’s local media for that. Wendy Suares at KOKH FOX 25, was a loud voice in support of Oklahoma University’s gender clinic that was referring minors for mastectomies. She erroneously reported that the Roy G. Biv Center received “threats” after our coverage revealed they were offering puberty blockers and surgeries to gender-confused children and, as a result, the university was threatened with having their funding removed by the Oklahoma legislature. The clinic denied to PJ Media knowing anything about any threats or increased security that Suares reported, and OU Health refused to comment on it.
“I’m told by 2 separate staffers [threats] were made via calls into the main switchboard. I’ve also learned from staffers security has been enhanced at the facility.” Those “unnamed staffers” never surfaced for anyone but Suares. Suares was asked this week why she hasn’t covered the story about the high school attack in the girls’ bathroom at Edmond Memorial, and she wrote on Twitter that this story is not newsworthy. “There are fights at schools every day,” Suares wrote. “Right now I don’t think it meets the threshold to be ‘news.'”
If Suares had followed the Loudon County story, she would know that this story could be as viral as that one since it has most of the same elements, including a coverup (details on that in a follow-up article to come). Suares only reports stories about trans people that she can spin in a positive way, however. She is not interested in a story about a violent trans-identifying criminal. The reason should be quite clear. PJ Media reached out to her to ask her to explain why this story is not newsworthy in her opinion, but she did not respond at the time of publishing.
Right now in America, the biggest stories in the nation are the battles happening across the country between parents and school boards. Wendy Suares’s claim that this Oklahoma story is not newsworthy fails on a few different fronts. As a reporter who has been covering these stories, I can tell you it is newsworthy for at least one good reason: everyone clicks on a story like this. Stories about the gender-cult wars get massive numbers of eyeballs, which translate to dollars.
If the mainstream media is not reporting something that would guarantee them a fat paycheck, you have to ask why. Or maybe you don’t. You know the answer. The media is colluding with trans activists and Democrats to suppress the dangers to children from embracing trans ideology and radical far-left sexualized education.
People like Suares and the board members are all true believers and fellow travelers. They are deeply invested in pushing a radical political agenda onto your children and pushing for policies that remove your parental rights. That’s a huge story and we will continue to tell it.
Wendy Suares, on the other hand, is going to continue to ignore the assaults on girls and women so she can look virtuous to her peers. Or at least she was going to do that until PJ Media asked her for a comment on why she wouldn’t tell this story. According to a source, Suares has now suddenly decided to cover it. We eagerly await her take.
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A Disney animated film released over the Thanksgiving weekend ended up being a total bomb at the box office. The film, Strange World, brought in an anemic $18.6 million during its five-day opening, the second-worst Disney opening in history. Only the pandemic-era release of West Side Story, directed by Steven Spielberg, performed worse, according to Variety.
Disney was expecting a $30-$40 million opening.
Strange World was billed as the first Disney movie to include an openly gay main character. Why the woke folk at Disney thought this was a selling point for a “family movie” is beyond me.
Nevertheless, Disney assembled an all-star voice cast including Jake Gyllenhaal, Dennis Quaid, Lucy Liu, and Gabrielle Union and gave the film a budget of $180 million.
Variety reports that the film is now expected to lose $120 million. “Normally this time of year, a Disney family film is the big draw,” Paul Dergarabedian, a senior Comscore analyst, told Variety. “It shows we’re still recovering and adapting to the constraints of the pandemic.”
Right. Let’s blame the pandemic for Disney’s stupidity.
As with other recent Disney animated movies including Lightyear (another disappointing box office flop), Strange World sought to crowbar progressive causes into the film, including for the first time in Disney’s history an openly gay main character. However, one liberal movie reviewer said Disney would likely use homophobia to shield it from the film’s obvious shortcomings.
Indeed, for a big-budget movie released to kick off the Christmas season, Strange World did not get the full Disney marketing treatment. This, more than the main character, who is gay, probably contributed to the bad opening.
But the gay character definitely played a role.
Overseas grosses may not provide much of a lifeline. “Strange World” was similarly jilted at the international box office with $9.2 million from 43 markets. Like most Hollywood films, it won’t play in China or Russia, two major international markets, due to geopolitical tensions. Beyond that, Disney opted to not submit “Strange World” to several smaller markets, including the entire Middle East, Malaysia and Indonesia, because the movie features a gay character. Films with LGBTQ references have been regularly targeted by censors in those territories and Disney wasn’t willing to cut out parts of the movie to comply with their guidelines.
One dad reports that his kid wanted to leave about 10 minutes into the showing.
In short, the movie failed in its primary objective: to entertain the audience. Will the return of former Disney CEO Bob Iger fix what’s broken at Disney?
Disney’s latest flop comes on the heels of the return of its iconic former CEO Bob Iger who is expected to turn around the ailing company after suffering several financial setbacks. Iger is taking over for Bob Chapek, who openly embraced progressive social causes while leading the media company, drawing the ire of Governor Ron DeSantis and fellow Florida Republicans.
Disney+, the company’s touted streaming service, has lost more than $8 billion since it first launched three years ago.
Oh, yeah. Let’s say it all together: “Get Woke. Go Broke.”
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“Book banning is much more than just the removal of books from school libraries.”
Actually, that’s all it is: an effort to remove explicitly pornographic material such as Gender Queer from public libraries and public schools. But Ali Velshi and Reza Aslan are in the business of stoking Leftist hysteria, and they love posturing as the courageous enlightened against the benighted, willfully stupid bigots.
If Velshi is serious about his “Banned Book Club,” however, let him feature an author whose books are not subject to an official ban, but to the de facto ban of Leftist conformism. Let him discuss a book that cuts against the Left’s authoritarian agenda. Don’t hold your breath.
“Velshi Banned Book Club: The Concerted Effort to Ban Books,” NBCUniversal, November 5, 2022:
Book banning is much more than just the removal of books from school libraries. It has become a rallying cry for the Christian Right, and a wedge issue for these upcoming midterm elections. So how do you speak to religious fundamentalists about an issue like book banning? Reza Aslan, author of “Beyond Fundamentalism” has an answer, “The way that you defeat religiously-inspired hate is with religiously-inspired love….
SWALWELL DARES LECTURE THE PUBLIC ABOUT WHAT WOULD HAPPEN IF THE REPUBLICANS ARE ELECTED DESPITE HIS SEXUAL TRIST WITH A COMMUNIST CHINESE "HONEYTRAP" PROSTITUTE SPY
"As a former prosecutor, I’ve given a lot of thought about what it will look like for women as the MAGA abortion bans are enforced. #LockHerUp illustrates what's at stake this November for the women we love."
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Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Fang Fang) on Monday unveiled a demagogic new campaign video that is designed to heighten Leftist hysteria about the overturning of Roe v. Wade and the prospect of some states outlawing abortion. Swalwell captioned the video: “MAGA Republicans want women arrested for having an abortion. This is what that looks like. #LockHerUp”
This plays into the Left’s most paranoid fantasies about the “radical right” and the rise of “fascism,” but as Daily Signal reporter Mary Margaret Olohan pointed out, “This has never happened. But this is what it looks like when the Biden DOJ shows up at the home of a pro-life activist and arrests him in front of his screaming children. That has happened multiple times now.” Exactly. The Swalwell abortion appeal is the exact obverse of what’s really happening in America today and ignores the real source of contemporary fascism: Swalwell and his colleagues.
Swalwell’s video is the very definition of psychological manipulation. It begins with a father feeding a baby at the dinner table as a piano meanders sentimentally in the background. As Dad makes num-num-num sounds to encourage the happy baby to eat, the baby’s older sister, who looks to be about eight, says exasperatedly, “You’re weird.” Mom, brimming with affection, agrees happily: “He is weird. But cute.” The husband looks up from his baby-feeding duties, and says, “Awww,” and the couple kisses, as the girl, clearly pleased and fascinated, keeps up her act by exclaiming, “Gross!”
Subtext: women who have had abortions are as American as apple pie, benign, normal, un-green-haired, un-tattooed, un-enraged, un-screaming, un-hateful. Why they’re just like you and me, or rather, just like Ozzie and Harriet: benign, loving, kind, and above all, family-oriented. All those morbidly obese women with hair dyed unnatural colors and obscene slogans on their t-shirts? Forget ’em. The true face of abortion is just like your face.
This is, in other words, pure propaganda, and it gets worse. For at that moment, this idyllic scene is interrupted by blue-and-red flashing lights shining through the curtains and loud, insistent knocks on the door. Hubby asks, “What the hell?” which is a bit out of sync with the Father-Knows-Best vibe, but after all, it is a crisis moment. The wife opens the door to reveal two solemn cops, who might as well be holding “Defund the Police” signs.
One of them says: “Mary Anderson? I have a warrant for your arrest.” Stunned and baffled hubby asks: “Arrest for what?” The po-faced cop continues: “Penal Code 243 violation: unlawful termination of a pregnancy.” Husband recoils: “You gotta be kidding me!” Wife stammers: “That is, that is my personal business.” The officer says: “That’s for the courts to decide, ma’am. Your medical records have been subpoenaed, and Dr. Lander’s already in custody.” As she says, “You can’t just—” the cop continues unperturbed: “You will have to submit to a physical examination.”
At that point, all hell breaks loose. The husband steps toward the cops, saying, “No one’s touching my wife!” They draw their guns and order him to get back. The kids scream in terror as the cops order the woman to turn around and put her hands behind her back. “We’re just enforcing the law here,” says the cop, as the screen goes black and we see, “Elections Have Consequences” and an appeal to voters to save the sacrifices to Moloch. We see one last glimpse of the woman in the back of the police car, muttering “Please don’t do this.”
It’s terrifying, all right. But it’s utter fiction. As Olohan noted, this has never happened. What’s more, not one Republican or major pro-life advocate has called for the arrest of women who get abortions. What has happened quite recently, however, is that Old Joe Biden’s appallingly corrupt FBI arrested pro-life activist Mark Houck in a scenario that was quite a bit more terrifying than the one imagined in Swalwell’s video.
As PJM’s Paula Bolyard reported, the feds carried out “a SWAT raid on the family home at 7:05 a.m. According to [Houck’s wife] Ryan-Marie’s account, there were 25-30 agents in 15 cars. They surrounded the house with rifles in firing position, and ‘started pounding on the door and yelling for us to open it.’” Houck’s children were screaming in terror, just like in Swalwell’s video, but for real.
And just to emphasize that the action against Houck wasn’t a one-off, the following week, the FBI carried out a similar raid at the home of a 73-year-old pro-life activist, Chester Gallagher. If Eric Swalwell is worried about federal overreach, he must have denounced the raids on Houck and Gallagher, no? Of course, he didn’t. His concern is only that the Left’s agenda be advanced, including its maniacal support for abortion without any restrictions. His concern for unjustifiable law enforcement raids on peaceful, loving families ends where that Leftist agenda begins.
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Mehdi Hasan is a hate-filled far-Left MSNBC host who espouses fashionable Big Lies such as the claim that “white supremacy is now a key ideology of the Republican Party” and “the far-right domestic terror threat is more dangerous than even Al Qaeda after 9/11.”
Back in 2009, Hasan, a Shi’ite, said of atheists: “In this respect, the Koran describes the atheist as cattle. As cattle of those who grow the crops and do not stop and wonder about this world.” The Qur’an does indeed say: “Already we have created many of the jinn and mankind for Gehenna, having hearts with which they do not understand, and having eyes with which they do not see, and having ears with which they do not hear. They are like cattle, no, they are worse. These are the neglectful.” (7:179)
“For Mehdi Hasan, Two Antisemitic Wrongs Make Ilhan Omar Right,” by David Litman, CAMERA, October 17, 2022:
On October 16, MSNBC host Mehdi Hasan spoke with Congresswoman Ilhan Omar on a number of subjects, ending with a question about antisemitism. Given Hasan’s history, it is unsurprising that the question exuded bad faith. To begin, he wields discussions of antisemitism as a weapon for his own partisan interests. Then, he seeks to downplay Omar’s antisemitism as just “criticism of Israel.”
Here is Hasan’s question in full:
“You have been demonized in recent years as an antisemite by many, especially by Donald Trump and the GOP over your criticisms of Israel and of Jewish groups’ support of Israel, some of which you have regretted and apologized for, that you should have been more careful with some of your language in the past. And yet this morning, former President Trump tweeted, and I quote, ‘Jews need to get their act together and appreciate what they have in Israel before it’s too late.’ This coming from the guy who said you should’ve resigned from Congress for your comments. What do you make of Trump’s post this morning? What do you think the right would be saying if you or Rashida Tlaib had threatened American Jews, which of course I know you wouldn’t have done?”
Partisan Exploitation of Antisemitic Incidents
Begin with the partisanship. From the start, his segment is not one of concern about antisemitism, but instead a rather blatant employment of political whataboutery. Hasan immediately declares that the concern about Omar’s history of antisemitism came “especially” from “Donald Trump and the GOP.” Hasan also tells us Omar, the “progressive” member of the Squad, has regretted her words, and that he “knows [Omar] wouldn’t have” “threatened American Jews” like Trump did. After all, the accusations of antisemitism against her came from that guy who said antisemitic things and “who said [Omar] should’ve resigned from Congress.”
Hasan seems to be suggesting that because Trump said antisemitic things himself, the accusations against Omar aren’t valid. It’s only a slightly more sophisticated version of the childish attempt to justify one’s actions by suggesting two wrongs make a right.
Of course, “Trump and the GOP” weren’t the only ones condemning Omar’s past remarks, and whatever their faults, they obviously do not reflect on other individuals and political groups condemning Omar. The Democratic leadership denounced her antisemitism, as have Jewish Democrats. The Anti-Defamation League, headed by the progressive Jonathan Greenblatt, has also recoiled from Omar’s obvious anti-Jewish animus….
Hasan’s tactic of trying to portray antisemitism as “criticism of Israel” fits together well with his partisan habits.
Any sensible definition of antisemitism will not be blind to the employment of classic antisemitic tropes used against the world’s only Jewish state. When Omar tweets that “Israel has hypnotized the world,” that’s playing on the classic tropes of Jewish power manipulating the media and governments.
When Omar tweets “It’s all about the Benjamins baby” to suggest that supporters of Israel are only doing it because of money, and then specifically mentions the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, that’s not criticism of Israel either. That’s employing the monied Jew and dual loyalty tropes against American Jews and their allies….
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(Natural News) News reports and eyewitness testimonies about the fires destroying food manufacturing plants in the countries are strong evidence that there’s something sinister going on. However, the government and mainstream media (MSM) are simply ignoring these.
Dr. Jane Ruby could not help but wonder, asking this on Sept. 26: “Are they trying to replicate the fear and panic to a larger degree than what happened in 2020? When people panicked and cleaned out grocery stores for simple items like toilet paper, but didn’t even understand why they were doing it? Well, maybe, but on a much bigger scale.”
Ruby touched on the shortages of food, fuel, and fertilizer – which lines up with the elites’ plans for global starvation. However, she also mentioned the role of the MSM in shaping the public’s opinion in all of this.
These incidents went on and on, but no investigations were made because no lives were lost – except for things that affected hundreds of food manufacturing plants that could impact a country’s ability to distribute food to its citizens.
Such incidents have been chalked up as “conspiracy theories,” but Ruby pointed out that the MSM is incredibly dangerous. Together with the government, it has assured people that the food supply remains uninterrupted. However, many have observed the fires that consumed many food production facilities – something too much to ignore.
MSM gaslighting citizens to create a fake narrative
Ruby accused the MSM of “doing the opposite of what it’s supposed to be doing,” which is to keep authorities honest or make them as transparent as possible. Instead, the MSM has become an active conspirator and led people to believe the opposite of what is actually happening.
“It’s pretty unbelievable. When you look at it, even the reporters that are on these sets talking about it barely show any curiosity. Why aren’t we getting an investigation? They just kind of report like a robot,” she said.
Anybody who has been in grocery stores lately would have noticed that there were months that went by when certain products were unavailable because distributors stopped producing or manufacturing them. Today, Americans are seeing red herrings as the U.S. come on the heels of another election, and lies and misinformation are being spread.
“The point is to take a step back. What am I looking at? What are they saying? What is their proof? What do they want us [ordinary citizens] to do? Does that make sense?” Ruby pointed out.
With the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war, inflation, and a $30 trillion debt that is still rising, the United States in 2022 looks a lot like the recession of 2008. Americans watched their retirement savings disappear, and those who had their 401K could be at risk again. Yet, the government is keeping this information – and more – away from the people.
