There’s a reason some of the biggest streaming hits are often ten or more years old.
The Hollywood that produced “Friends,” “The Office,” “Parks and Recreation,” and “Seinfeld” wanted one thing — to entertain and, by extension, bag big ratings.
Today’s Hollywood is different. So says the general public, which just dramatically noted that modern films are <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2024/04/03/nolte-exclusive-by-2-to-1-americans-believe-movies-are-worse-today/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">worse than they were</a> just a decade ago. Re-issues of classic films like “Hocus Pocus” sometimes <a href="https://bloody-disgusting.com/movie/3783159/hocus-pocus-just-made-nearly-2-million-in-theatrical-re-release-for-30th-anniversary/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">lap newer titles at the box office</a>.
What changed? You might pin some of the blame on propaganda.
While many modern TV shows and movies remain apolitical and free of culture war fallout, many others embrace the new shift. 
Not only are today’s storytellers eager to insert their progressive agendas into new projects, but the industry calls upon groups tasked with helping them do just that.
The stories in question often suffer as a result, forcing viewers to scramble for older product.
A new report from Just The News shared how <a href="https://justthenews.com/accountability/media/groups-coordinate-hundreds-outlets-push-climate-crisis-news-and-entertainment" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Good Energy Stories works with Hollywood</a> to “insert political messages regarding climate change into television, film, and media.”
It’s unclear how many studios or screenwriters have tapped the group’s resources, but it’s hard not to notice how its preferred themes infiltrate movies and TV shows. There’s even a term used for fictional yarns with climate change themes: <a href="https://www.science.smith.edu/climatelit/cli-fi/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">cli-fi</a>.
TV and film characters routinely name drop “global warming,” “climate change,” and similar phrases even when the stories have little to do with the environment.
The hard-feminist comedy “Barbie,” for example, featured this line:
<blockquote>You set the feminist movement back 50 years, you destroyed girls’ innate sense of worth, and you’re killing the planet with your glorification of rampant consumerism</blockquote>
Or consider this bloated bit of dialogue from “Mission: Impossible &#8211; Dead Reckoning Part One:”
<blockquote>The next world war isn’t going to be a cold one. It’s going to be a ballistic war over a rapidly shrinking ecosystem. It’s going to be a war for the last of our dwindling energy, drinkable water, and breathable air. Your days of fighting for the greater good are over.</blockquote>
Other movies, like “Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom,” directly address eco-concerns.
If a film doesn’t name-check climate change it might embrace other parts of the progressive agenda, like open-border policies. For that, Define American stands ready to advise eager screenwriters. The group, formed by illegal immigrant Jose Antonio Vargas, says it <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/11/entertainment/immigration-tv-shows/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">consulted on 75 film and TV shows as of 2021.</a>
Since then, we’ve seen more fictional stories pushing an open borders narrative like 2023’s “Unseen” documentary and Fox&#8217;s <a href="https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/culture/elise-ehrhard/2024/03/27/foxs-cleaning-lady-glorifies-illegals-makes-cartel-leader" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“The Cleaning Lady” series</a>.
The upcoming Zoe Saldana drama “The Absence of Eden” suggests yet another sympathetic portrait of “undocumented immigrants.” Here’s the official synopsis:
<blockquote>The Absence of Eden takes place at the border between the United States and Mexico … When Esmee (Saldaña), a young woman working as a private dancer in Mexico, is forced to commit a violent act of self-defense that results in the death of a cartel member, she flees her homeland for sanctuary in the United States… Before crossing the border, the mother is taken from the group, and Esmee promises to protect her daughter and help them reunite again in America, touching off an interlocking story about people struggling to survive on America’s border with Mexico.</blockquote>
Hollywood also loves gun control narratives, despite cranking out endless action films teeming with so-called “gun violence.” For that, screenwriters can turn to Everytown for Gun Safety, a group that regularly canoodles with Hollywood talent to inject their narratives into the stories we see.
Its Creative Council, including Oscar-nominee Julianne Moore, has a long history of shaping Hollywood stories. The Netflix drama “House of Cards” <a href="https://www.americas1stfreedom.org/content/gun-control-s-hollywood-connections/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">created a storyline</a> tied to new gun laws that steered viewers to an Everytown website sharing similar messaging.
Films like 2016’s “Miss Sloane,” which leaned heavily on outside consultants to shape its gun-centric storyline, offer more blatant examples of the collaborations in play.
The University of Southern California (USC) joined the movement, producing a handbook last year <a href="https://thereload.com/usc-highlights-gun-control-groups-talking-points-in-guide-intended-to-influence-hollywoods-depiction-of-guns/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">for Hollywood creatives to follow.</a>
<blockquote>Trigger Warning: Gun Guidelines for Media” “provides guidance on how TV shows, movies, and even news shows should approach issues such as officer-involved shootings, gun storage, mass shootings, school shootings, and partner violence.</blockquote>
Hollywood’s woke revolution offers another propaganda-like product. Gender-swapped stories abound, becoming so commonplace it’s now <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/gina-carano-skewers-disneys-kathleen-kennedy-over-hilarious-south-park-send-up" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a source of mainstream ridicule</a> thanks to &#8220;South Park.&#8221;
And then there&#8217;s Late-night television, often indistinguishable from DNC talking points.
The line between comedian and White House press secretary blurred beyond belief recently when “The Late Show” host Stephen Colbert took part in a Biden fundraising soiree. Colbert’s appearance didn’t surprise anyone. The far-Left host relentlessly uses his CBS show’s platform to attack Republicans, deify Democrats, and ignore stories that paint progressives in an unflattering light.
He’s joined, to varying degrees, by fellow late-night hosts Seth Meyers, Jimmy Kimmel, John Oliver and Jimmy Fallon. Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show” offers a rotating lineup of far-left comedians who essentially do the same.
Their propaganda-riddled monologues inspired the birth of a new phrase — “Clapter,” meaning “jokes “meant to draw more applause than laughter.
In that regard, Colbert is in a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1ZmbRXTKAs" target="_blank" rel="noopener">class by himself</a>.
Colbert cherry-picked comments from Special Counsel Robert Hur’s testimony tied to President Joe Biden’s document scandal. The comic’s monologue could be a gaslighting primer, suggesting Biden’s memory is far sharper than we realize.
That’s not comedy or entertainment. It’s propaganda. And, sadly, it has plenty of company in Hollywood.
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Christian Toto is an award-winning journalist, movie critic and editor of <a href="http://www.hollywoodintoto.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">HollywoodInToto.com</a>. He previously served as associate editor with Breitbart News’ Big Hollywood. Follow him at <a href="https://twitter.com/HollywoodInToto?lang=en" target="_blank" rel="noopener">@HollywoodInToto</a>.
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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The Biden administration lashed out on Monday after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu signaled that he will ban Aljazeera, a Qatari government-controlled propaganda channel, from Israel because of the lies it has told about the October 7 terrorist attack and because some of its journalists participated in the attack.
Israeli lawmakers in the Knesset passed a measure 71-10 on Monday giving Netanyahu the power to ban the organization.
&#8220;Al Jazeera harmed Israel&#8217;s security, actively participated in the October 7 massacre, and incited against IDF soldiers,&#8221; Netanyahu posted on X. &#8220;It is time to remove the shofar of Hamas from our country. The terrorist channel Al Jazeera will no longer broadcast from Israel.&#8221;
&#8220;I intend to act immediately in accordance with the new law to stop the channel&#8217;s activity,&#8221; he added. &#8220;I welcome the law promoted by Communications Minister Shlomo Karai with the support of coalition members led by coalition chairman Ofir Katz.&#8221;
White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre lashed out at Israel during the White House press briefing on Monday, saying that it was concerning that Israel would ban a propaganda network that is controlled by a country that has <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/terror-watch-its-time-rethink-our-relationship-qatar-opinion-1834604">strong ties</a> to terrorism.
&#8220;At least the reports that we’ve seen — is about Al Jazeera, specifically. But it doesn’t matter, whichever — right? — journalists more broadly,&#8221; she said. &#8220;But if it is true — if it is true, a move like this is concerning. We believe in the freedom of the press. It is critical. It is critically important. And the United States supports the critically important work journalists around the world do. And so — and that includes those who are reporting in — in the conflict in Gaza.&#8221;
&#8220;So, we believe that work is important, the freedom of the press is important,&#8221; she added. &#8220;And if those reports are true, it is concerning to us.&#8221;

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu fired back at an ABC News journalist during an interview over the weekend after the journalist promoted Hamas terrorist propaganda.
Netanyahu made the remarks during a Sunday interview with ABC News&#8217;s Jonathan Karl on &#8220;This Week&#8221; while discussing Israel&#8217;s military campaign against Hamas, which came as a response to Hamas murdering 1,200 people in Israel and wounding thousands more in an unprecedented terrorist attack last year.
Netanyahu was asked to respond to President Joe Biden calling Israel&#8217;s military campaign &#8220;over the top,&#8221; remarks that Biden made during a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/democrats-panic-after-bidens-disastrous-press-conference-worse-than-an-indictment">press conference</a> last week about his mental fitness for office where <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-explodes-during-press-conference-on-his-mental-fitness-makes-several-mental-mistakes">he repeatedly made mental fumbles</a>.
&#8220;I appreciate President Biden&#8217;s support for Israel since the beginning of the war. I don&#8217;t know exactly what he meant by that, but put yourself in Israel&#8217;s shoes,&#8221; Netanyahu said. &#8220;We were attacked. unprovoked attack, murderous attack, on October 7th, the worst attack on Jewish people since the Holocaust. And let me tell you, I think we&#8217;ve responded in a way that goes after the terrorists and tries to minimize the civilian population in which the terrorists embed themselves and use them as human shields.&#8221;
Netanyahu highlighted the extensive measures that Israel took to mitigate the loss of innocent life during its military operation, including <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGCWHldanCQ">dropping hundreds of thousands of fliers</a>, calling and urging Palestinians to leave their homes, giving them safe corridors and zones to leave, and more.
Karl then promoted Hamas propaganda from the Ministry of Health in Gaza, which is run by Hamas, claiming that Israel has killed 28,000 people.
&#8220;I think that any civilian loss, any civilian casualty is a tragedy, and it&#8217;s a tragedy that is forced upon us by Hamas,&#8221; Netanyahu responded. &#8220;But let me tell you something. I&#8217;d be cautious with the Hamas statistics. And I can tell you that, according to these urban warfare experts and other commentators, we&#8217;ve brought down the civilian-to-terrorist casualties, the ratio, down below 1-1, which is considerably less than in any other theater of similar warfare. And we&#8217;re going to do more.&#8221;
&#8220;We have killed &#8212; we&#8217;ve killed and wounded over 20,000 Hamas terrorists, out of that about 12,000 &#8212; 12,000 fighters,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;And we&#8217;re doing everything we can to minimize civilian casualties and continue to do so. But one thing we&#8217;re not going to do is we&#8217;re not going to let Hamas emerge victorious. And if we leave, it will be a tremendous victory for the Iran terror axis. It&#8217;s bad for everyone.&#8221;
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Netanyahu said that victory was close for Israel as it has eliminated 18 out of Hamas&#8217; 24 terrorist battalions.
&#8220;You&#8217;re mopping up the remaining individual terrorists, and when they release the hostages, of course, and ensure that Hamas &#8212; that Gaza is no longer a threat to Israel,&#8221; he said in describing what it will take to end the war. &#8220;You don&#8217;t have to kill every last terrorist. You don&#8217;t have to kill every last ISIS terrorist, but you make sure that ISIS was finished as a military force. You have to dismantle. Hamas is a military force that controls territory. We&#8217;re well within reach, and we shouldn&#8217;t stop.&#8221;
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It was just a few days ago that a Republican lawmaker from South Carolina named Nancy Mace <a href="https://www.facebook.com/MattWalshBlog/videos/im-embarrassed-by-this-moment-from-nancy-mace/253191271140537/">invoked</a> the invented concept of &#8220;white privilege&#8221; in a congressional hearing. She was supposedly trying to put Hunter Biden in his place by saying that he&#8217;s the beneficiary of &#8220;white privilege,&#8221; because he can ignore subpoenas without suffering any consequences. But as I explained on the show at the time, all Nancy Mace did was legitimize the Left&#8217;s framing, which is fundamentally anti-white and fraudulent. Hunter Biden does not benefit from his skin color. He benefits from the fact he&#8217;s the son of the president of the United States. Everyone knows that.
So all Nancy Mace accomplished was reinforcing a false narrative that demonizes millions of white people, and accuses them of having unearned privilege simply because they were born with a certain skin color. She also derailed the entire hearing by allowing Democrats like AOC to harp on their own personal definitions of &#8220;white privilege.&#8221;
As counterproductive and idiotic as Nancy Mace&#8217;s stunt was, it does need to be said that it wasn&#8217;t that surprising. Nancy Mace isn&#8217;t exactly a staunch, far-right conservative. She raised money for Liz Cheney, came out in support of the so-called &#8220;LGBTQ movement,&#8221; and voted to hold former Trump adviser Steve Bannon in contempt of Congress. This is the track record of someone you might expect to adopt the Left&#8217;s narrative on &#8220;white privilege,&#8221; because she&#8217;s adopted so many of the Left&#8217;s other narratives.
The much bigger issue is that Nancy Mace is just one example of a larger problem in the Republican Party — one that affects politicians we&#8217;re told are considerably smarter, and more right-of-center, than Nancy Mace.
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Take Matt Gaetz, for example. Gaetz obviously doesn&#8217;t comply with the Left&#8217;s new speech codes. He publicly humiliated Mark Milley, who was the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff at the time, for teaching soldiers about &#8220;white rage.&#8221; He also led the effort to oust House Speaker Kevin McCarthy because he wasn&#8217;t sufficiently committed to the &#8220;America First&#8221; movement. All this is to say, Matt Gaetz is the last person you&#8217;d expect to pull a Nancy Mace and start adopting the Left&#8217;s framing on identity politics.
But this week, that&#8217;s exactly what Matt Gaetz did.
Appearing on Newsmax, Gaetz began talking about Donald Trump&#8217;s big win in the Iowa Caucuses. And he said that, based on his experience on the ground in Iowa, Trump is attracting more &#8220;diverse&#8221; voters, meaning voters who aren&#8217;t white. And Matt Gaetz presented this as a good thing. Here&#8217;s how he phrased it:
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Matt Gaetz:
“For every Karen we lose, there’s a Julio and a Jamaal ready to sign up for the MAGA movement. That abodes well for our ability to be diverse and durable.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/fslOPui91c">pic.twitter.com/fslOPui91c</a>
&mdash; Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) <a href="https://twitter.com/CitizenFreePres/status/1747995588627489024?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 18, 2024</a></blockquote>
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“For every Karen we lose, there’s a Julio and a Jamaal ready to sign up for the MAGA movement.” If we decode the language there, Matt Gaetz is saying that in the freezing tundra of Iowa, he apparently didn&#8217;t see a lot of white women. But he did see tons of Hispanics and black people coming out for Donald Trump. They were presumably waving their MAGA flags around in the blizzard conditions or whatever.
Even if you pretend that&#8217;s true, which it clearly isn&#8217;t, the language Matt Gaetz used in that clip tells you a lot. No Republican, Matt Gaetz included, would ever dream of speaking this way about black voters in the reverse. You aren&#8217;t going to hear Gaetz say of black voters who don&#8217;t vote Republican (which is the vast majority): &#8220;Oh we don&#8217;t need those Jamals. We&#8217;ve got plenty of white people to take their place.&#8221; He&#8217;s only going to talk like that about white women, or &#8220;Karens,&#8221; as he calls them.
Here is a Republican who is even considered (wrongly, I think) to be &#8220;far right&#8221; who has entirely adopted the Left&#8217;s anti-white rhetoric and racial double standards. That&#8217;s how pervasive this stuff is. He&#8217;s happy to attack &#8220;Karens,&#8221; but he&#8217;d never do the same in reverse, because then he&#8217;d be called a racist. And he can&#8217;t have that.
The other remarkable thing about this clip is how it inverts all of the conservative arguments we&#8217;ve been hearing for the past several years. We went from Democrats denying that the Great Replacement was happening, to admitting it and saying it&#8217;s good, to Republicans also agreeing that it&#8217;s good and advocating for a Great Replacement in their own party. But along with being objectionable, this is also politically suicidal. It actually isn&#8217;t at all even close to true that for every white female voter Republicans lose, they&#8217;re replacing her with a black voter. White women still support Republicans in far, far greater numbers than black males. It&#8217;s not even close. As Ann Coulter has pointed out many times, the <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2020/09/21/trump-white-voters-support-418420">only group</a> Trump lost ground with in 2020 was white people — specifically <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-support-demographics-white-men-exit-poll-1545144">white men</a>. And yet Republicans have apparently decided that the key to victory is to pander for the minority vote while alienating their key constituency.
Whatever explains this self-defeating embrace of identity politics among conservatives, it&#8217;s definitely catching on. It&#8217;s not just Nancy Mace and Matt Gaetz doing it. In that same hearing where Nancy Mace talked about &#8220;white privilege,&#8221; Georgia congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene claimed that Hunter Biden was afraid of her because she&#8217;s a strong, independent woman. Watch:
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She actually said that, as if it was some kind of devastating insult. &#8220;He&#8217;s not afraid because he&#8217;s a criminal; he&#8217;s afraid because we&#8217;re girlbosses.&#8221; That&#8217;s the idea. It&#8217;s hard to think of a better way to torpedo the case against Hunter Biden than to use lines like this. When you have a strong case against someone, you don&#8217;t say they&#8217;re afraid because you&#8217;re a woman. You say they&#8217;re afraid because of the damning facts and evidence you&#8217;ve assembled. This is the exact opposite of what Republicans should have done in this hearing, but one after another, they did it. They kept commiting to these vapid displays of identity politics, over and over again.
And it&#8217;s not just confined to that one hearing, or to Matt Gaetz interviews. By now we&#8217;re all familiar at this point with Nikki Haley&#8217;s constant use of identity politics during this campaign. In case you somehow missed it, here&#8217;s a mercifully short clip to show you what I&#8217;m talking about:
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Just like the remarks from Nancy Mace or Marjorie Taylor Greene or Matt Gaetz, this is totally indistinguishable from something AOC might say. It&#8217;s the most cliched form of gender politics imaginable. It&#8217;s not just stupid. It adopts the Left&#8217;s narrative that immutable characteristics — like skin color or gender — matter more than anything else. This is a narrative that has cost millions of people jobs, college admissions, contracting jobs, federal financial assistance, and so on. It has been a disaster for this country and it needs to stop. Instead of saying that, Republicans are embracing it. They&#8217;re reinforcing it at every opportunity.
Why is this happening? It&#8217;s possible that we&#8217;re seeing yet another cynical attempt to win over voters. Maybe that&#8217;s the explanation. But if that&#8217;s the case, it&#8217;s obviously a bad idea. You might remember that Donald Trump devoted years of his presidency to pushing something called &#8220;The First Step Act,&#8221; which Matt Gaetz promoted. The Trump team even ran a Super Bowl ad featuring a drug trafficker that Trump let out of prison. The idea, according to Trump&#8217;s inner circle, was to improve the GOP&#8217;s voting share among black Americans. Of course it didn&#8217;t work. Black voters in 2020 did what they&#8217;ve done in every modern election, which is vote overwhelmingly for Democrats. Trump got basically the same percentage of the black vote that George W. Bush did back in 2004. 
So if identity politics is a ploy for votes, it doesn&#8217;t seem likely to work. Identity politics from the Right doesn&#8217;t appear to convince anyone. But if you take a few steps back, it&#8217;s not hard to see that identity politics is just one part of a much larger problem among conservatives. Increasingly, conservatives are embracing the narratives of the Left, wholesale, even when they&#8217;re complete lies. We saw that when Nikki Haley mourned the death of George Floyd. She immediately bought the official narrative, and then she went on to say — as American cities were burning down — that George Floyd&#8217;s death needed to be &#8220;personal and painful for every American.&#8221; We also saw this from Mitt Romney, who marched with BLM, and even chanted their slogans. 
And just the other day, we saw something similar from Ron DeSantis at a CNN town hall. Watch as CNN&#8217;s Wolf Blitzer asks DeSantis a question that&#8217;s premised on a completely false narrative. And then notice that Ron DeSantis doesn&#8217;t push back at all:
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DeSantis wasn’t briefed on the border hoax?
He immediately assumes that CNN is telling the truth, when they were lying. Smearing innocent Texas who are defending this country and the border.
I can’t believe it. How did DeSantis not know this! 
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As Mike Cernovich pointed out on X, this is completely inexcusable. CNN is flat-out lying about what happened. And in response, maybe because no one briefed him on this, DeSantis just accepts the premise, which originated from the Biden White House, even though it was completely wrong. What happened is that the White House originally claimed that quote, &#8220;a woman and two children drowned near Eagle Pass, and Texas officials blocked U.S. Border Patrol from attempting to provide emergency assistance.” That was the report that millions of people heard from CBS News, which broadcast the narrative first.
But shortly afterwards, Joe Biden&#8217;s DOJ contradicted that version of events entirely. As Fox&#8217;s Bill Melugin pointed out, the DOJ made it clear that quote, &#8220;The migrants had already drowned at 8 p.m., and the Border Patrol didn’t inform Texas until an hour later at 9 p.m. &#8230; The DOJ now confirms, those migrants had been deceased for an hour before Texas was even alerted about it.&#8221;
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So it&#8217;s just like the false claims that the Border Patrol had &#8220;whipped&#8221; illegal migrants, as Bill Melugin pointed out. The narrative is just a total lie, as the Biden administration itself admitted. But even after the DOJ admitted that, CNN asked Ron DeSantis about it on the debate stage. And everyone pretended it was true. It&#8217;s embarrassing for the DeSantis campaign, for CNN, and for everyone else involved in this moment. But even if the narrative were true — even if illegal migrants had died who could have been saved — it still wouldn&#8217;t mean anything. It would be one anecdote that doesn&#8217;t tell us anything about immigration policy more generally. But the point is that conservatives reflexively accept the version of events they&#8217;re given. They don&#8217;t define the narrative. They just play along with the narrative they&#8217;re given. The fact that it&#8217;s getting harder and harder to find exceptions to this rule is not a good sign for the modern conservative movement.
But the other day, we saw one of these rare exceptions, courtesy of UFC fighter Sean Strickland. Strickland is an American who just arrived in Toronto for the UFC fights this weekend. Here&#8217;s how he handled a member of the Canadian press, who tried to corner him with the same kind of dumb gotcha questions that you&#8217;ve heard a million times before. Watch:
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Idk who this guy is and I don&#39;t care but you&#39;re not a man&#8230; But you&#39;d take that as a compliment&#8230;.. <a href="https://t.co/PMR1h4Yp7K">pic.twitter.com/PMR1h4Yp7K</a>
&mdash; Sean Strickland (@SStricklandMMA) <a href="https://twitter.com/SStricklandMMA/status/1747734279516250446?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 17, 2024</a></blockquote>
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How many conservative politicians could hold their ground in a situation like that, and affirm — in the face of an &#8220;ally&#8221; of the LBGTQIA+ community — that transgenderism is a mental illness? You could probably count the number on one hand, if that.
Notice how Sean Strickland doesn&#8217;t even remotely accept the premise of this hack&#8217;s questions. He doesn&#8217;t concede that he was wrong to speak his mind, or to think unapproved thoughts. Instead he immediately identifies the &#8220;reporter&#8221; as a propagandist and laughs in his face. And he reaffirms what he said before, because it&#8217;s what he believes is true. And then afterwards — at his second press conference in Toronto, after there had been a full media cycle about this, and Canada&#8217;s state press had labeled him a bigot — what did Sean Strickland do? Watch:
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You can hear the crowd loves it. At one point a guy runs up to the stage to shake his hand. So he doesn&#8217;t back down, and everyone in the audience recognizes that and appreciates it. He makes a mockery of the people who wanted him to cower and apologize — and there were a lot of them in Canada, particularly in the media. He makes it clear that hate speech isn&#8217;t real, which is bold to say in Canada, where transphobia can get you charged with a crime. There you have a UFC fighter who&#8217;s a more vocal supporter of freedom of speech than pretty much any conservative politician in America. You won&#8217;t find him talking about &#8220;white privilege&#8221; or &#8220;strong conservative women.&#8221; This is what resonates now.
If the Republican Party wants to win elections, this is the path it needs to take. If they reject the Left&#8217;s obsession with skin color and gender and homosexuality, then voters will respond. We don&#8217;t need another &#8220;First Step Act,&#8221; or any pandering to stereotypes like Julio and Jamaal. We need politicians who are capable of acting like normal people.
If a UFC fighter can do it, there&#8217;s no reason the leaders of the Republican Party can&#8217;t.

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I know a little bit about the kinds of speech that are generally welcomed on campus.
I’ve been banned from a few campuses, including DePaul University; I’ve spoken at more than a few campuses at which violence broke out over my speeches, including California State University at Los Angeles, Penn State, and University of California at Berkeley.
I also know that were I a student at any of these universities – and if I said, as a student, what I routinely say as a speaker – I’d undoubtedly be dragged before the administration and hit with sanctions. I’d be responsible for “microaggressions” by saying things like “Western culture is superior” and “men are not women.” I’d be responsible for “harmful language” for stating that human beings ought to be judged not based on race, but on merit. 
But apparently, at the top universities in America, all of those sensitivities disappear for one group in specific: Jews.
Yesterday, House Republicans held a hearing at which the heads of major universities were grilled regarding the rise of anti-Semitism on their campuses. We’ve been talking about that spike in anti-Semitism for weeks, from threats of violence to near-riots, from tearing down hostage posters to openly Jew-hating slurs.
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Some of the students from these universities explained the situation on campus, like. <a href="https://twitter.com/trishaposner/status/1732075865553457550" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Bella Ingber</a> of New York University:
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Jewish college students are telling Congress today about the unrestrained <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/antisemitism?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#antisemitism</a> sweeping their campuses. I was particularly moved by Bella Ingber, a junior at <a href="https://twitter.com/nyuniversity?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@nyuniversity</a>. Shame on NYU and other schools for their stunning failure to protect Jewish students. <a href="https://t.co/obWCeQxqL0">pic.twitter.com/obWCeQxqL0</a>
&mdash; Trisha Posner (@trishaposner) <a href="https://twitter.com/trishaposner/status/1732075865553457550?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 5, 2023</a></blockquote>
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<a href="https://twitter.com/RepRudyYakym/status/1732135552495808585" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Eyal Yakoby</a> at the University of Pennsylvania described the calls for genocide of Jews and celebration of the Hamas massacre on October 7 as well as physical threats. 
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Eyal’s testimony is profound and shows how serious the problem of antisemitism on our colleges campuses is.
America’s elite colleges had an easy test the past two months: forcefully condemn antisemitism and speak out against vile hatred. 
Many of them have failed miserably. <a href="https://t.co/9MG0dEX3IY">https://t.co/9MG0dEX3IY</a>
&mdash; Congressman Rudy Yakym (@RepRudyYakym) <a href="https://twitter.com/RepRudyYakym/status/1732135552495808585?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 5, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Now, imagine that black students had arrived in Congress to describe similar experiences: calls for genocide, celebration of terror attacks against black Americans, physical threats. Does anyone think the respective university presidents would have sat, grinning at the lawmakers quizzing them on their lack of action?
But that’s precisely what happened yesterday. Rep. Elise Stefanik of New York questioned the presidents University of Pennsylvania, Harvard University, and MIT about genocidal language chanted on campus. <a href="https://twitter.com/RepStefanik/status/1732138663608271149" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Listen to their responses</a>.
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🚨🚨🚨Presidents of <a href="https://twitter.com/Harvard?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Harvard</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/MIT?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@MIT</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/Penn?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Penn</a> REFUSE to say whether “calling for the genocide of Jews” is bullying and harassment according to their codes of conduct. Even going so far to say it needs to turn to “action” first. As in committing genocide.
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&mdash; Rep. Elise Stefanik (@RepStefanik) <a href="https://twitter.com/RepStefanik/status/1732138663608271149?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 5, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Listen to that obfuscation. Listen to the spin.
It is difficult to imagine that these icons of sensitivity and diversity, equity and inclusion would be nearly so sanguine about slurs against any other racial or ethnic minority in America.
Simply put, they wouldn’t.
One can make the case for free speech on campus – I can and I do – but one cannot pretend that universities protect students against harassment and then soft-pedal Holocaust-level rhetoric.
These university presidents don’t like free speech at all. But they’re perfectly fine not only mouthing language they certainly don’t believe about free speech, but smiling while they do it.
So, why are they so sanguine?
There are two reasons.
First, the Left – and university presidents are almost the Platonic ideal of intellectual Leftists – believes that Jews are not part of the intersectional coalition of the oppressed. By Leftist logic, Jews are part of the superstructure of power, since all success is merely a reflection of hierarchies of power, and Jews are disproportionately successful. Anti-Semitism is merely the ugliest guise for the oppressor/oppressed binary, but it isn’t the only one – just ask the newest white Americans, Asian Americans on university campuses, who have been deemed white because they score too high on their SATs, and thus are candidates for discrimination.
Then there’s the second reason: the Left hates Israel. The Left hates Israel because, like American Jews, Israel is too successful in the region in which it is located. Israel, according to the Left, is a colonialist outpost of the West, and the West is evil because it too is successful – which means that it is exploitative and oppressive. 
Hence the deep and passionate attempt by the Left to pretend that anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism are unrelated. The Left doesn’t want to be perceived as openly anti-Semitic, but they understand that anti-Zionism can provide a heartening opportunity to oppose Jewish and Western flourishing. 
Hence the Left’s rabid attachment to the idea that calls for Israel’s destruction are somehow not anti-Semitic, but actually a reflection of a more universalistic humanitarian creed. 
Sure, that creed would actually materialize in the death of millions of Jews  and the dominance of radical Muslim terrorism. But that doesn’t matter. After all, Israel is the real problem, because the West is the real problem – and we know that’s true because the West and Israel are successful. According to the Left, radical Muslim regimes that impoverish their citizens aren’t worth one bit of attention. Israel, by contrast, ought to be destroyed. 
That’s why yesterday, in a <a href="https://twitter.com/benjamin_bdj/status/1732070868589674707" target="_blank" rel="noopener">subtle bit of maneuvering</a>, Harvard President Claudine Gay acknowledged Israel’s right to exist – but not as a Jewish state. Which is like saying that Ireland has a right to exist, but not as an Irish country.
So, what ought to be done?
Bill Ackman, CEO of Pershing Square and a major donor to Harvard, wrote that the college presidents “must all resign in disgrace. If a CEO of one of our companies gave a similar answer, he or she would be toast within the hour. Why has anti-Semitism exploded on campus and around the world? Because of leaders like Presidents Gay, Magill and Kornbluth who believe genocide depends on the context. To think that these are the leaders of Ivy League institutions that are charged with the responsibility to educate our best and brightest.”
He&#8217;s right, of course.
But that isn’t nearly sufficient.
The universities are corrupt through and through. Their endorsement of DEI has been a curse to reason and decency. Their politics are vile and those politics also make the universities corrupt factories of moral depravity.
Which means that first, every major donor to these universities should think about cutting funding. Of course, some of us were on this bandwagon years ago. I wrote a book titled Brainwashed: How Universities Indoctrinate America’s Youth when I was 19; the book came out when I was 20, in 2004. In it, I wrote that conservatives ought to “pull money from universities,” but that such a tactic wouldn’t be nearly sufficient – that other sources, including radical Islamic regimes, would fill the gap.
And that means that universities ought to be hit with another tactic: businesspeople must stop falling for the credentialing scam that universities represent. They ought to be hiring bright kids out of high school directly and giving them internships, or hiring from solid state schools. 
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Finally, parents need to seriously think about not sending their kids to these universities. They are indoctrination mills for truly immoral garbage. 
Want a case in point? How about young liberal Jews?
A whole generation of young Jewish kids have been sent to university by their parents, who believed in the upwardly mobile American dream. There, these kids were turned against their parents and their roots. <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/05/us/jewish-american-israel-gaza-generation-gap.html">The New York Times</a> reports that many young Jews – meaning, of course, people who were born Jewish but have nothing to do with actual Jewish practice or identity, as even the Times recognizes – are abandoning Israel in the name of Leftist ideology. 
Here’s the Times: 
<blockquote>Marc Kornblatt prepared uneasily last month for his daughter, Louisa, to arrive for 10 days with the family. Her homecomings once brought the comfort of movie nights and card games, but this year was different….He and his wife, Judith, had moved away from Madison, Wis., to live in Tel Aviv, where they felt a real sense of belonging as Jews. Around the same time, their daughter, attending graduate school at the University of California, Berkeley, came to oppose the existence of Israel as a Jewish state.</blockquote>
That daughter, unsurprisingly, “sometimes uses the pronouns they/them.” According to the Times, 
<blockquote>At Berkeley, she read Audre Lorde, Mariame Kaba, Ruth Wilson Gilmore and other Black feminist thinkers, who prompted her to consider ‘questions around power, privilege and whiteness.’ Ms. Kornblatt came to feel that her emotional ties to Jewish statehood undermined her vision for ‘collective liberation.’ Over the last year, she became increasingly involved in pro-Palestine activism, including through Jewish Voice for Peace, an anti-Zionist activist group, and the If Not Now movement. ‘I don’t think the state of Israel should ever have been established,’ she said. ‘It’s based on this idea of Jewish supremacy. And I’m not on board with that.’</blockquote>
Actually, the concept of Israel is based on Jewish existence. But that’s really what Leftism opposes, for all the reasons listed.
Universities are a disaster area. Parents should pull their kids unless those kids are prepared for the raging hell-storm of foolishness and immorality they are about to be taught.

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Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Mark Warner (D-VA) said during an interview on Sunday that top U.S. officials fear that the Chinese-government-controlled app TikTok is being used as a &#8220;propaganda channel&#8221; by the Chinese Community Party and that it could have severe implications in the U.S.
Warner made the remarks during a Sunday CBS News interview on &#8220;Face The Nation&#8221; with host Margaret Brennan when asked about combatting Chinese influences in the U.S., including their use of artificial intelligence and social media.
Warner said that it was important for the U.S. to not only focus on TikTok but on &#8220;all foreign technology that might pose&#8221; a national security threat.
He said that legislation he introduced on the issue needed to move forward because &#8220;literally 40 percent of young people get all their news from TikTok.&#8221;
&#8220;This technology competition, we&#8217;ve had military competitors like Russia,&#8221; he said. &#8220;We&#8217;ve never had an economy that&#8217;s making the investments the way China is in these new technology domains.&#8221;
Warner said he feared TikTok &#8220;could be used as a propaganda channel for the CCP, the Communist Party of China.&#8221;
TikTok has faced growing calls from U.S. lawmakers to be banned because it is allegedly boosting heavily anti-Semitic content on its platform that has distorted the reality of what is happening with Israel&#8217;s war against Hamas. The content on TikTok matches the stances of China&#8217;s communist government, which has criticized Israel and <a href="https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2023/10/17/beijing-refuses-to-condemn-hamas-steps-up-criticism-of-israel/">refused</a> to condemn Hamas after it murdered 1,200 people in Israel, wounded 5,300+, and took more than 240 people hostage.
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&#8220;But around artificial intelligence where I think we need to be humble because candidly we&#8217;ve done nothing on any guardrails on social media and on technology writ large,&#8221; Warner added. &#8220;The two areas where artificial intelligence could have an enormous negative effect tomorrow is interfering in our public elections, but it also could have a tool in terms of interfering in our public markets.&#8221;
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Warning about how AI could be used for election interference in 2024, <a href="https://twitter.com/MarkWarner?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@MarkWarner</a> says Congress has &quot;done nothing on any guardrails on social media and on technology writ large,&quot; and that AI &quot;could have an enormous negative effect tomorrow&quot; in elections and public markets. <a href="https://t.co/owL9BYjYb0">pic.twitter.com/owL9BYjYb0</a>
&mdash; Face The Nation (@FaceTheNation) <a href="https://twitter.com/FaceTheNation/status/1723737465968554333?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 12, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/think-again-rubio-warns-americans-against-tiktok-wants-it-banned">‘Think Again’: Rubio Warns Americans Against TikTok, Wants It Banned</a>

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Senate Intel Chairman: We Fear TikTok Being ‘Used As A Propaganda Channel For The Chinese Communist Party’

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Major American news outlets like The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Associated Press routinely cite the Gaza Health Ministry’s numbers for civilians purportedly killed in Israeli airstrikes, but the Hamas-run agency has a history of lying about these very numbers. 
After Hamas launched a brutal terrorist attack on Israel on October 7, the Israeli government responded quickly and forcefully, bombing Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip and preparing a ground operation that is expected to begin any day. Quickly after Israel responded to Hamas’ attack with airstrikes on military targets, legacy media outlets began reporting numbers of Palestinian civilian casualties fed to them by the Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry. 
At the top of The New York Times’ live updates on the war, the legacy outlet <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/live/2023/10/16/world/israel-hamas-war-news-gaza/heres-the-latest-on-the-war?smid=url-share" target="_blank" rel="noopener">writes</a>, “Some two million people remain trapped in Gaza, desperate for water and other critical supplies and fearful of Israeli airstrikes that Palestinian officials say have already killed more than 2,800 people and wounded more than 10,000 others.” Those numbers come directly from the Palestinian Health Ministry, but the Times makes no mention of the agency’s previous lies about its death tolls. 
The Times previously noted that the health ministry used deceptive tactics less than a decade ago. In an article published by the Times on August 5, 2014 — in the midst of an Israeli operation in Gaza to take out terrorists — the news outlet <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/06/world/middleeast/civilian-or-not-new-fight-in-tallying-the-dead-from-the-gaza-conflict.html?_r=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a> that the “Palestinian Ministry of Health does not categorize victims as civilian or combatant,” meaning the Gaza-based reporting of civilian casualties was significantly higher than what Israel and the U.N. reported. 
During the 2014 conflict, an <a href="https://www.usnews.com/opinion/articles/2014/08/12/hamas-lies-about-the-gaza-civilian-death-toll-and-the-media-bought-it" target="_blank" rel="noopener">opinion piece</a> in U.S. News &amp; World Report highlighted Hamas’ lies about civilian casualties, stating clearly that the numbers coming from the Palestinian Health Ministry cannot be trusted. 
“Hamas lies systematically, instructing civilians to misinform the foreign press. It lies habitually, with a formidable record of mendacity from previous conflicts. And it lies guiltlessly, convinced that the objectives of ‘resistance’ supersede quaint notions of truth-telling,” Oren Kessler wrote on August 12, 2014. The report even went on to blast “Western media” for going along with Hamas’ casualty count. 
“Nonetheless, since Israel launched Operation Protective Edge over a month ago, Western media have relied on Gaza’s Hamas-run Health Ministry – as <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSKBN0FV04K20140726" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a>, <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/israel-hamas-trade-fire-as-gaza-death-toll-mounts-1407579399" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a> and <a href="https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/missile-strike-al-shati-refugee-camp-kills-10-including-8-children/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a> – for casualty tallies,” the report added. “As one reporter told the Washington Post, when it comes to body counts, the Hamas Health Minister Ashraf Al-Qidra is ‘the only game in town.’&#8221; 
The fog of war combined with the Gaza Health Ministry’s deceptive reporting makes gathering accurate information on Palestinian civilian casualties nearly impossible. This was proven yet again when an <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/israel-defense-forces-terrorists-fired-rocket-that-killed-500-at-gaza-hospital" target="_blank" rel="noopener">explosion near a Gaza hospital</a> on Tuesday was blamed on an Israeli airstrike by Palestinian authorities, whose word was taken as truth by mainstream newsrooms. The Hamas-backed health ministry said the blast at the hospital killed at least 500 people, and that claim was plastered on the websites and in the newspapers of American legacy media outlets — again, with no explanation of the unreliable source reporting the deaths. 
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The New York Times <a href="https://twitter.com/EndWokeness/status/1714416589724864790/photo/1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">changed</a> its headline <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20231017194544/https://www.nytimes.com/live/2023/10/17/world/gaza-news-israel-hamas-war" target="_blank" rel="noopener">multiple</a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20231017203739/https://www.nytimes.com/live/2023/10/17/world/gaza-news-israel-hamas-war" target="_blank" rel="noopener">times</a> after the explosion near the Gaza hospital — initially running with the Palestinian officials’ version of the event before updating the headline as more information came out that indicated the blast came from a failed Hamas rocket. The Times provided no editor’s note explaining the revised headline. 
After the blast at the hospital, The Washington Post <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/10/17/israel-palestinians-gaza-hamas-war-biden-rafah/f80150f0-6ca9-11ee-b01a-f593caa04363_story.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>, “Before the al-Alhi Hospital deaths, Israeli strikes on Gaza killed at least 2,778 people and wounded 9,700, according to the Gaza Health Ministry, and nearly two-thirds of those killed were children. Another 1,200 people across Gaza are believed to be buried under the rubble, alive or dead, health authorities said.” The death count is reported as fact with no disclaimer about the unreliability of the source it comes from. 
Similarly, the Associated Press <a href="https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-gaza-hamas-war-biden-rafah-e062825a375d9eb62e95509cab95b80c" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>, “A massive blast rocked a Gaza City hospital packed with wounded and other Palestinians seeking shelter Tuesday, killing hundreds of people, the Hamas-run Health Ministry said. Hamas blamed an Israeli airstrike, while the Israeli military blamed a rocket misfired by other Palestinian militants. At least 500 people were killed, the ministry said.”
American news outlets <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/live-updates/israel-hamas-war-gaza-palestinians-hostages-updates/#post-update-1871bc50" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CBS</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2LL2kbNmiY" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ABC</a>, <a href="https://www.msnbc.com/chris-jansing-reports/watch/palestinian-officials-hundreds-killed-in-strike-on-gaza-hospital-195816517935" target="_blank" rel="noopener">MSNBC</a>, <a href="https://www.cnn.com/middleeast/live-news/israel-news-hamas-war-10-13-23/h_1bc0ffaac9b123d607215ecabaadc3eb" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CNN,</a> and <a href="https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/israel-attacks-200-targets-in-gaza-ahead-of-biden-visit-cd6889d6" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Wall Street Journal</a> have all followed suit by reporting Hamas’ propaganda as fact, and the health ministry’s lies were also touted by sitting members of Congress, Reps. <a href="https://twitter.com/RashidaTlaib/status/1714342122185191596" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Rashida Tlaib</a> (D-MI) and <a href="https://twitter.com/IlhanMN/status/1714358704303157661" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ilhan Omar</a> (D-MN). Both of the congresswomen have <a href="https://twitter.com/RashidaTlaib/status/1714413463928229950" target="_blank" rel="noopener">doubled</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/IlhanMN" target="_blank" rel="noopener">down</a> on accepting the Palestinian authorities’ lies and condemning President Biden for standing with Israel.

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Hamas-Run Gaza Health Ministry Cited By Legacy Media Has History Of Lying About Civilian Casualties

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The popular <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/dw-kids">kids</a> cartoon “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/cartoons">Paw Patrol</a>” introduced a new &#8220;non-binary&#8221; character on one of its spinoff shows, “Rubble &amp; Crew.” 
In a recent episode of the Nickelodeon series called “The Crew Builds An Observatory,” the English bulldog welcomes a so-called “non-binary” character named River into the mix.
The entire episode revolves around the gang building an observatory for stargazing and does not address River’s identity. But <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/lgbtq">LGBTQ</a> activist Lindsay Amer, who runs the YouTube channel “Queer Kids Stuff,” described more details about River’s inclusion in an Instagram post. 
“They brought me on to consult on the first nonbinary character—meet River!!—for the PP universe and write their episode, talk about a bucket list item,” Amer wrote. The content creator also discussed the subtle messaging with River, including shoes featuring the trans flag colors.
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“I wanted to write a nonbinary character that was aspirational and incredibly cool, someone for the pups (and kids at home) to look up to. They found an awesome non-binary actor to voice River and I’m so so happy about how it turned out,” the post continued. Amer also shared photos of River’s shoes.
“Peep River’s [non-binary, transgender] kicks!” the activist wrote. 
Daily Wire podcast host Matt Walsh <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/paw-patrol-indoctrinates-pre-schoolers-with-radical-lgbt-propaganda">said</a> the “Paw Patrol” episode is part of a larger effort by Hollywood to indoctrinate children from a very young age by exposing them to LGBTQ messaging early and often.
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“Even back in 2020 they were, as you can see here, displaying the so-called ‘non-binary’ flag by adorning a boat in its colors. It’s not subtle at all, unless you’re in pre-school,” Walsh said. “For that audience, the idea is to get them used to seeing these colors and associating it with something good and fun and welcoming, so that when they encounter the &#8216;non-binary&#8217; flag in real life, they will draw that association. Subliminal messaging is a big part of kids’ cartoons these days.”
Walsh also pointed out how Amer openly promotes far-Left principles for young kids. Amer said toddlers should be introduced to “big abstract concepts like queerness” and that infants should have a “queer and gender-affirming environment in their nursery.” 
People expressed their disgust on social media.
&#8220;It&#8217;s not entertainment when it&#8217;s really propaganda,&#8221; one reaction said.
&#8220;I’m so sick of seeing this s***. Leave our kids alone!!!&#8221; another echoed.
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Popular ‘Paw Patrol’ Cartoon Spinoff Slammed For Introducing ‘Non-Binary’ Character

Popular 'Paw Patrol' Cartoon Spinoff Slammed For Introducing 'Non-Binary' Character

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When the government suddenly announces a recall, or even talks about pulling a product from the shelves, it&#8217;s normal to assume that some unexpected defect has recently been discovered. Maybe the feds have noticed that a car&#8217;s airbags don&#8217;t deploy during a crash, or that a certain brand of fish tank is prone to spontaneous implosion. Whatever the case, you&#8217;re inclined to think that some new information has come to light that necessitates the recall. And in most circumstances that&#8217;s true.
But there is one industry —Big Pharma — that has consistently been the exception to this rule. This is an industry that happens to enjoy a lot of special treatment from the federal government, including immunity from lawsuits. In the pharmaceutical industry, a recall doesn&#8217;t necessarily mean that some catastrophic defect has just been identified. Instead, it often means that there&#8217;s been a known problem for a very long time — one that&#8217;s been deliberately hidden from the public, until finally it&#8217;s impossible to deny any longer. After COVID, most of the country realizes that this kind of thing can happen. What they might not realize, because there&#8217;s a mountain of propaganda designed to hide this fact, is how common this is.
Here&#8217;s the latest example. Right now the pharmaceutical industry is debating whether to issue one of the biggest recalls in modern history. The recall would affect a wide array of over-the-counter cold medicines, including some products bearing the brand names Mucinex, Tylenol, Sudafed, NyQuil, and Benadryl. The reason? According to the government, these products <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/12/health/cold-medicine-decongestant-fda.html#:~:text=996-,A%20Decongestant%20in%20Cold%20Medicines%20Doesn%27t%20Work%20at%20All,time%20to%20substitute%20other%20ingredients." target="_blank" rel="noopener">don&#8217;t work</a>. At all. 
To be clear, as we&#8217;ll explain in a second, some Benadryl and Sudafed products still work, according to the government. We&#8217;re talking about a certain but very popular subset of these over-the-counter products that use a specific ingredient. At the same time, if you&#8217;re one of the hundreds of millions of people who have consumed these products over the past decade, this is a big headline. You paid money for a product that you thought worked, on assurances from the government and Big Pharma. You then ingested this product, based on those assurances. And now you&#8217;re being told that these pills had all the effectiveness of eating a cookie and drinking some warm milk.
One of the first questions you&#8217;d think to ask, under these circumstances, is when exactly the regulators and the pharmaceutical companies figured out that these products are completely ineffective. If you listen to most news reports on this subject, you&#8217;ll be left with the impression that some new information came out. That impression would be completely wrong, but it&#8217;s what they&#8217;re presenting. Here, for example, is CBS News:
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What&#8217;s left unmentioned in that report is that this significant alleged defect in these drugs — the fact that they don&#8217;t do anything — has been widely known for years. It&#8217;s not new information. Nearly a decade ago, in 2015, researchers at the University of Florida said they <a href="https://pharmacy.ufl.edu/2015/10/14/uf-researchers-ask-fda-to-remove-non-prescription-decongestant-from-the-market/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">found</a> conclusive evidence that many non-prescription decongestants didn&#8217;t work. “Scientific evidence continues to show that the most popular products on the market containing phenylephrine are ineffective.&#8221; (Phenylephrine, to be clear, is used in certain drugs like over-the-counter Sudafed. It&#8217;s not used in the brand of Sudafed you have to get from the pharmacist.)
The researchers continued: &#8220;We think the evidence supports that phenylephrine’s status as a safe and effective over-the-counter product should be changed. We are looking out for the consumer, and he or she needs to know that science says that oral phenylephrine does not work for the majority of people.”
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This was back during the Obama administration. The findings raised a lot of uncomfortable questions, such as: Why would the FDA approve a drug that&#8217;s effectively a placebo? Why were regulators still allowing Big Pharma to sell it? Why were people continuing to buy drugs that didn&#8217;t do anything? And where are the prosecutors? Isn&#8217;t it fraud to advertise products that don&#8217;t work? Shouldn’t there be penalties for making billions of dollars off of something that doesn’t do what it’s supposed to do?
By refusing to do anything about phenylephrine, the federal government dodged all of these questions. They also helped cover up their role in causing the problem in the first place. You rarely hear this discussed, but the supposedly useless ingredient in question, phenylephrine, wasn&#8217;t always used in medications like Sudafed. Twenty years ago, the key ingredient in the most popular form of Sudafed was a very different decongestant called pseudoephedrine. This ingredient, we can be reasonably confident, actually works.
But in 2006, the federal government made it a lot harder to get &#8220;real Sudafed&#8221; with this ingredient. Congress passed a law effectively requiring people to undergo background checks before they could walk out of the store with it. &#8220;Real Sudafed&#8221; was no longer an over-the-counter medication. The justification for this restriction, ostensibly, was stopping people from using the ingredient to make meth. We&#8217;ll be taking a lot of dangerous drug kingpins off the streets, they told us.
Once Congress passed that law, Big Pharma needed an alternative. Most customers don&#8217;t want to wait in line for a pharmacist every time they need a decongestant. So they&#8217;ll leave the CVS without making a purchase. So very quickly big pharma came out with a new form of Sudafed using a different ingredient, called phenylephrine. Big Pharma, and the federal government, told us it was the best of both worlds. This new form of Sudafed can&#8217;t be used to make meth. At the same time, we were assured, it&#8217;s just as effective as real Sudafed.
Shortly after that law was passed, there were reasons to doubt the narrative that the government was pushing. For one thing, because of all these changes, a lot of innocent people were <a href="https://reason.com/2006/12/24/man-arrested-for-allergies/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">arrested</a> for no reason. One of them was named Tim Naveau. He was charged with a federal crime for buying too much Claritin. He wanted to get some extra pills for his son, who was going away to camp. In response, local officials arrested the man. They didn&#8217;t care that he wasn&#8217;t making meth. They charged him anyway. They said he was collateral damage in the larger meth war, which this legislation would help the federal government win.
Nearly two decades later, we learn that nothing we were told turned out to be true. For one thing, meth has never been easier, or cheaper, to obtain in this country. It&#8217;s not coming from domestic meth labs, for the most part. Instead it&#8217;s coming from Mexico, across a border that the federal government has deliberately left open. And on top of that, according to the government, the substitute Sudafed and related drugs were not effective, as we were promised. It&#8217;s useless. The new narrative is that Big Pharma made billions of dollars every year selling products that did not work. They knew it. The federal government let them do it.
Why are they telling us now? Is anything they&#8217;re telling us true? That&#8217;s a question we can&#8217;t answer, because both Big Pharma and federal regulators have lied so routinely, so consistently, that there&#8217;s no reason to take anything they say at face value. If recent history is any indication, it&#8217;s probably not a good sign. Normally when the federal government says a drug doesn&#8217;t work, there&#8217;s two possibilities.
The first possibility is that they&#8217;re trying to drive up sales of some other drug. We saw that during COVID: &#8220;Don&#8217;t take that therapeutic; it&#8217;s horse tranquilizer. Take our shot instead.&#8221; In the case of these decongestants, there&#8217;s long been a push to require prescriptions. In various states, activists and politicians have said it&#8217;s not enough to hide these decongestants behind the counter, and to track their sale. They say it&#8217;s necessary to require people to get a prescription first. This has been going on for a while. Here&#8217;s one report in Indiana from a decade ago, for example:
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So this is the first possibility for why they&#8217;re pulling these drugs. Maybe it&#8217;s part of a larger effort to shift these decongestants to a prescription model, so that more people are seeing doctors and pharmacists — and there’s more money being made by everyone involved.
That&#8217;s one theory. The other possibility is that the FDA&#8217;s fraud simply couldn&#8217;t go on any longer, because the evidence that they&#8217;re lying about these drugs&#8217; effectiveness was becoming too overwhelming. If that&#8217;s the case, it wouldn&#8217;t exactly be the first time something like that happened. It was just a couple years ago that the FDA unanimously <a href="https://www.npr.org/2021/06/11/1005567149/3-experts-have-resigned-from-an-fda-committee-over-alzheimers-drug-approval#:~:text=Three%20experts%20have%20now%20resigned,every%20member%20on%20the%20panel." target="_blank" rel="noopener">approved</a> an Alzheimer&#8217;s drug called Aduhelm that didn&#8217;t work. This is one of the most expensive drugs available on the market. It costs more than $50,000 per year, per customer.
But the approval process didn&#8217;t go as smoothly as the FDA and the drug maker, called BioGen, would have liked. Several of the FDA&#8217;s experts resigned in protest after the agency approved Aduhelm, even though there was no evidence it did anything to treat Alzheimer&#8217;s. Here&#8217;s one of the experts who quit:
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As you just heard, the entire premise of the drug was that you can cure Alzheimer&#8217;s by removing so-called &#8220;sticky plaques&#8221; in the brain. But it later emerged the research supporting that theory, which appeared in Nature magazine, was <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/science/science-news/alzheimers-theory-undermined-accusations-fabricated-research-rcna39843" target="_blank" rel="noopener">doctored</a>. On top of that, serious side effects of the drug emerged, including brain bleeding.
So why did the FDA approve the drug? It turns out the agency had a <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/fda-broke-protocols-approving-biogen-alzheimers-drug-congressional-rep-rcna63662" target="_blank" rel="noopener">close relationship</a> with the drug company, BioGen, throughout the approval process. This relationship, Congress later determined, broke the FDA&#8217;s own rules. But it worked out for BioGen. 
We see this phenomenon again and again. The federal government tells us that a drug works, and that they know exactly how it works. By the time we find out they&#8217;re lying, the drug company has made a ton of money. We saw something similar happen with SSRIs. For decades, we were told that low serotonin levels were linked to depression. Therefore, SSRI&#8217;s would fix that problem by allowing more serotonin in the brain. Even as mass shootings and depression and suicide rates all went up, we were assured by Big Pharma and the media that SSRI&#8217;s were working. That was what the science said, and if you disputed it, you&#8217;re a troglodyte. It only emerged last year that, in fact, low serotonin isn&#8217;t <a href="https://www.tpr.org/bioscience-medicine/2022-12-28/research-concludes-low-serotonin-does-not-cause-depression-what-does-that-mean-for-ssris" target="_blank" rel="noopener">linked</a> to depression at all.
Somehow that wasn&#8217;t a major scandal. SSRIs — which stands for selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors — were never pulled from the shelves, even though the official position of the scientific community is that low serotonin doesn&#8217;t cause depression. There were no massive class-action lawsuits that bankrupted the companies that made billions of dollars from these SSRIs, just as BioGen hasn&#8217;t been held accountable for its worthless Alzehimer&#8217;s drug, and just as no one in the Sackler family went to prison for lying about the addictiveness of opioids.
For all those reasons, we can assume Big Pharma and the government will continue to lie to us. If they don&#8217;t face consequences, they have no reason to change what they&#8217;re doing. That&#8217;s why, at this moment, our political leaders are gearing up for a new round of COVID decrees. These decrees have already arrived in Canada, where public health officials are now calling for children as young as six-months-old to receive COVID shots.
There are no clinical trials or studies that demonstrate that it&#8217;s safe or necessary in any way to give COVID shots to six-month-old children. Not a single one. And, to be honest, even if they had conducted trials, there would be reason to doubt those, as well. We are now at the point where, whatever the class of drug we&#8217;re talking about — whether it&#8217;s Alzheimer&#8217;s treatments, COVID shots, SSRIs, even decongestants — you can assume you&#8217;re being lied to. If you consume drugs that Big Pharma and the federal government are pushing, you&#8217;re running the risk that ten or twenty years from now, you&#8217;ll learn what it&#8217;s actually doing, and what the actual side effects might be. Whatever you take, and whatever your kids take, you simply have to factor that doubt into the equation. You have to keep in mind that, if something bad happens down the line, you&#8217;ll be told it&#8217;s breaking news, and that no one could have seen it coming. Even though the people who made the drug, in fact, knew it was coming. 
Is this an ideal situation from a public health perspective? Of course not. But it&#8217;s the system we have. And if there&#8217;s any upside to the news this week, it&#8217;s that no one — not even people who are just shopping for a decongestant — can deny it anymore.
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Big Pharma Once Again Makes Billions Off Of A Drug That Doesn’t Work

Big Pharma Once Again Makes Billions Off Of A Drug That Doesn't Work

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As the great Tina Turner once said, &#8220;What&#8217;s love got to do with it?&#8221; Well, as it relates to the GOP&#8217;s &#8220;dogged investigation&#8221; of the Biden family crime saga, love doesn&#8217;t have anything to do with it.
Yet for former Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO), that&#8217;s what the entire fuss is about — as she sees it.
On Wednesday evening, after Hunter Biden&#8217;s plea deal completely derailed thanks to Judge Maryellen Noreika, former White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki used her MSNBC prime time show to push propaganda for her old boss. She brought on her comrade McCaskill as a guest.
At no point in the interview did Psaki inform her viewers that on Wednesday the Department of Justice admitted Hunter is being <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/doj-reveals-hunter-biden-still-under-federal-investigation-potential-fara-violations">investigated</a> for potential Foreign Agent Registration Act (FARA) violations and could be charged.
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Psaki did not inform her viewers that the DOJ admitted Hunter is being investigated for potential Foreign Agent Registration Act violations and could be charged (not good for Joe).
And she left out that the plea agreement would grant him near-universal immunity for future… <a href="https://t.co/izvArNxJjp">https://t.co/izvArNxJjp</a>
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Furthermore, Psaki left out that the plea agreement in its past form would have granted Biden near-universal immunity for future charges — which is a major reason why the judge didn&#8217;t accept the deal.  However, as several former federal prosecutors have pointed out, Noreika did not accept the deal because the DOJ-Biden agreement was unprecedented and would have effectively been universal immunity, tying her and other judge&#8217;s hands in the event Hunter receives future charges. Yet Psaki used the segment to push the notion that it was former President Donald J. Trump&#8217;s DOJ — not Biden&#8217;s DOJ — that was corrupt and did the president&#8217;s bidding.
If you thought that was bad, it paled in comparison to McCaskill&#8217;s take on the situation. The ex-senator claimed that Republicans would respond to the entire fiasco by trying &#8220;to indict a father for loving his son, who has been addicted to drugs and/or alcohol and without evidence of the father doing anything other than loving his son.&#8221;
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She also said that the DOJ and Hunter&#8217;s attorneys were worried that Trump would get re-elected and revoke the plea deal. So, she argued, this plea deal was arranged so that the judge would be the arbiter if Hunter violated his diversion program. The judge wasn&#8217;t comfortable with that — as McCaskill saw it — thus rejecting the plea deal.
Of course, that doesn&#8217;t pass the smell test. As William Shipley, an attorney and former federal prosecutor saw it, Noreika knew something was amiss with the deal.
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&#8220;Judges see so many plea agreements in the course of just a single year they realize immediately when something isn&#8217;t right, and then they ask questions,&#8221; he tweeted. &#8220;That&#8217;s what happened here. She realized something wasn&#8217;t kosher and she may issue a &#8216;Show Cause&#8217; Order asking for an explanation of why the two linked issues were placed in separate documents and then did not call attention to one another.&#8221;
&#8220;This was a &#8216;hidden&#8217; global plea agreement — and the fact that they tried to pull that off is all the GOP House needs to impeach Merrick Garland,&#8221; he added.
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That is a way to play &quot;hide the ball&quot; from the public, but Judges see so many plea agreements in the course of just a single year they realize immediately when something isn&#39;t right, and then they ask questions. 
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It appears that the broad nature of the deal was &#8220;hidden&#8221; to shield from the public that Hunter would be effectively granted immunity for any future FARA violations.
Yet, in McCaskill&#8217;s telling, the FARA portion of it is a small matter.
&#8220;And frankly, they&#8217;ll probably work out if he&#8217;s got immunity from FARA, the federal lobbying statute,&#8221; McCaskill said of what Biden&#8217;s legal team and the DOJ will do next.
Psaki never asked why that would need to be worked out — nor why Hunter would be in violation of FARA.
Nobody should have expected anything different from the likes of Psaki and McCaskill, but the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/cbs-passport-propaganda-and-trump-beware-the-government-media-complex" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Government-Media Complex</a> in action is always breathtaking to watch.
The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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‘Indict A Father For Loving His Son’: Biden Pravda On Display Like Never Before With Claire McCaskill, Jen Psaki

'Indict A Father For Loving His Son': Biden Pravda Like Never Before With Claire McCaskill, Jen Psaki

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A new investigative <a href="https://apnews.com/article/china-foreign-influence-utah-legislature-mormon-church-921526d0c8eda2732c361488d20dd1b4" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> published this week from the Associated Press found that China has been able to forge ties in Utah that have led to the communist nation scoring public relations and legislative victories in the state and from its lawmakers.
The report found that the Chinese &#8220;appealed&#8221; to the lawmaker&#8217;s ties to the The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to win favor with them that they later used to score wins in a variety of areas, including delaying legislation that took action against Chinese propaganda, canceling resolutions that condemned China, and promoted false positive images of China. The report said the church has &#8220;long dreamed of expanding in China.&#8221;
“Utah is an important foothold,” said Frank Montoya Jr., a retired FBI counterintelligence agent who lives in the state. “If the Chinese can succeed in Salt Lake City, they can also make it in New York and elsewhere.”
Lawmakers delayed the closing of Chinese-funded Confucius Institutes, which are propaganda entities, at state universities by one year.
A letter exchange coordinated by a Chinese teacher in Utah resulted in fourth-grade students getting correspondence from Chinese President Xi Jinping thanking them for cards the teacher had them send him. The incident was used by Chinese state media to portray Xi as a warm grandfather figure when he is actually a brutal dictator who has forced tens of thousands into concentration camps. Some state lawmakers gushed over the cards that Xi sent the children, the report noted.
China&#8217;s civilian spy agency, the Ministry of State Security (MSS), has also been focused on Utah, the report said, noting that there have been multiple people convicted of spying for China in the state.
The report said that groups of up to a couple of dozen Utah lawmakers have been taking trips to China every other year since 2007 and they make remarks while visiting that are later used by state media for propaganda.
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The report alleged that two men, Taowen Le, a Chinese professor who moved to the U.S. in the late 90s; and Dan Stephenson, the son of a former state senator and employee of a China-based consulting firm; were responsible for much of China&#8217;s increased activity in the state.

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China Influences Utah Lawmakers By Appealing To Mormonism: Report

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The latest edition of the <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/twitter" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Twitter</a> Files from investigative journalist Matt Taibbi revealed that <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/media" target="_blank" rel="noopener">media</a> outlets, academics, and policymakers who cited an initiative meant to track supposed <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/russia" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Russian</a> <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/propaganda" target="_blank" rel="noopener">disinformation</a> fell for a not-so-elaborate scam.
Hamilton 68, a computerized dashboard that monitored purported Russian bot infiltration, tracked 644 accounts supposedly linked to &#8220;Russian influence activities online,” according to an <a href="https://www.racket.news/p/move-over-jayson-blair-meet-hamilton" target="_blank" rel="noopener">article</a> and a social media <a href="https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1619029772977455105" target="_blank" rel="noopener">thread</a> posted by Taibbi. Executives at Twitter “reverse-engineered” the list of accounts out of a concern that the users were influencing the American political conversation on behalf of the Russians. Only 36 of the 644 accounts were registered in Russia, while many of the rest were ordinary American accounts.
Executives wrote in internal company emails that the accounts were “​​neither strongly Russian nor strongly bots” and concluded there was “no evidence to support the statement that the dashboard is a finger on the pulse of Russian information.”
Yoel Roth, the social media company’s former Trust and Safety lead, characterized the project as “bulls***” in one of the messages. He noted that the site “falsely accuses a bunch of legitimate right-leaning accounts of being Russian bots” and earns “traction around partisan trends” to assert that “any right-leaning content is propagated by Russian bots.”
The project was launched by former FBI agent Clint Watts and received backing from the German Marshall Fund and the Alliance for Securing Democracy. The latter entity, a bipartisan think tank, has an advocacy panel that includes former acting CIA Director Michael Morell, former American ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul, current Biden administration senior adviser John Podesta, and Bulwark editor-at-large Bill Kristol.
Allegations of collusion with Russia similarly <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/in-other-words-it-was-made-up-jim-jordan-rips-trump-russia-conspiracy-after-latest-durham-filing" target="_blank" rel="noopener">followed</a> former President Donald Trump throughout his administration; Robert Mueller, a special counsel appointed by the Justice Department, investigated claims that the Trump campaign illegally coordinated with Russian agents to influence the 2016 election, eventually concluding that no such evidence existed.
Taibbi found that media outlets such as NBC, CBS, ABC, PBS, CNN, MSNBC, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and Mother Jones cited supposed data on Russian disinformation from Hamilton 68 on “hundreds if not thousands” of occasions. He noted that the outlets often used the dashboard to discredit various political figures, such as <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/russian-web-trolls-boo-biden-often-boost-gabbard-report-finds-n1085216?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Tulsi Gabbard</a> and <a href="https://observer.com/2018/09/russian-propagandists-brett-kavanaugh-controversy-division-online/?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Brett Kavanaugh</a>, by linking them to purported disinformation operations.
Academics at postsecondary institutions like Harvard University and Princeton University also cited Hamilton 68, as did lawmakers such as Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), Sen. James Lankford (R-OK), and Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA).
Social media users contacted by Taibbi were surprised to learn they were supposed purveyors of Russian disinformation. Conservative writer David Horowitz and businessman Dennis Michael Lynch were implicated in the Hamilton 68 list, as were “a range of political dissidents, including leftists, anarchists, and humorists,” according to Taibbi.
Many were unsuspecting everyday Americans. “I am a 73-year-old snowbird in Florida,” one individual said. “Supposedly in a free world, we are being watched at many levels, by what we say online,” said another individual, who told Taibbi she had experienced political persecution in Lebanon before moving to the West.
Previous editions of the Twitter Files, an initiative from independent journalists based on emails and other internal company documents provided by Twitter CEO Elon Musk, have shown that federal law enforcement <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-new-twitter-files-shows-how-federal-state-governments-monitor-americans-social-media-posts" target="_blank" rel="noopener">policed content</a> on the platform and asked executives to remove certain posts. There existed “an organized effort by representatives of the intelligence community” aimed at “senior executives at news and social media companies,” according to journalist Michael Shellenberger.

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