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This is the first part of a...series about self-styled 'disinformation' tracking organizations that are cracking down on conservative media and part of a lucrative operation that aims to defund disfavored speech. Well-funded "disinformation" tracking groups are part of a stealth operation blacklisting and trying to defund conservative media, likely costing the news companies large sums in advertising dollars, a Washington Examiner investigation found. Major ad companies are increasingly seeking guidance from purportedly "nonpartisan" groups claiming to be detecting and fighting online "disinformation." These same "disinformation" monitors are compiling secret website blacklists and feeding them to ad companies, with the aim...

Be assured – once this becomes possible, progressive governments will ensure that this is part of taxpayer-funded health care. It may sound like an insane Frankenstein prophecy, but it isn’t. It’s coming. (LifeSiteNews) — Remember when we were told that the transgender debate was mostly about conservatives being jerks about pronouns? I think we’ve moved past that. For a couple of years already, biological men cosplaying as women have been demanding that the medical establishment address the injustice inflicted on them by reality and figure out a way to put wombs in men. Further to that, trans activists have asserted...

Some schools are now requiring that students read books that are too racy to be read aloud to school board members.How is this possible, and why is it allowed?The why is pretty simple: they are grooming kids. In fact, some of these books give explicit instructions on how to sign up for apps like Grindr, along with explicit instructions on how to perform sex acts–usually homosexual, but not always. That the descriptions are of homosexual sex is hardly the point; straight, gay, bi, queer…this is the promotion of illegal activities and enabling of sexual predators of all sexual persuasions.GRAPHIC: A...

Moldovan Prime Minister Natalia Gavrilita stepped down from her position on Friday citing a lack of support in the former Soviet Republic. The pro-Western government had been in power for just 18 months, during a period dominated by the Russian invasion of neighboring Ukraine. Moldova's President Maia Sandu accepted Gavrilita's resignation and said she would talk with parliamentary groups about a possible replacement. "Thank you so much for your enormous sacrifice and efforts to lead the country in a time of so many crises," Sandu wrote on Facebook. According to Moldovan and Romanian media, Sandu nominated Dorin Recean, her pro-Western...

What is going on in New Jersey? Hunting season has begun in the Garden State, but deer, bear, and other game species are not in season: it’s Republican politicians. Leah covered how Councilwoman Eunice Dwumfour, 30, was shot and killed in Sayreville on February 2. Now, another council member, Russell Heller, 51, was shot and killed in the PSE&G parking lot around 7 AM. Heller was seated on the Milford township council.Two New Jersey Republican City Council members have been assassinated in one week. pic.twitter.com/uhrTC1TTYi— Greg Price (@greg_price11) February 9, 2023The culprit was Gary Curtis, a former employee, who was...

There are more than 100 pediatric gender clinics across the U.S. I worked at one. What’s happening to children is morally and medically appalling. I am a 42-year-old St. Louis native, a queer woman, and politically to the left of Bernie Sanders. My worldview has deeply shaped my career. I have spent my professional life providing counseling to vulnerable populations: children in foster care, sexual minorities, the poor. For almost four years, I worked at The Washington University School of Medicine Division of Infectious Diseases with teens and young adults who were HIV positive. Many of them were trans or...

Pastor John MacArthur has been preaching God’s Word for more than 50 years at Grace Community Church in Sun Valley, California. And while most of his teaching is sound, a couple ideas he promotes are rejected by many discerning followers of Christ. MacArthur's controversial teaching on Lordship Salvation has been addressed by numerous people over the years, myself included. The prominent pastor also espouses the disturbing theory of limited atonement, which states that Jesus did not die on the cross for everyone, but only for believers. During a Q&A three years ago, a woman asked Pastor MacArthur, “Did Jesus die...

The alleged Chinese spy balloon that U.S. fighter jets shot down Saturday was likely capable of listening in on Americans’ communications and pinpointing the location of those conversing on the ground, according to the U.S. State Department. As the massive white balloon traversed the continental U.S. last week, drifting over several sensitive military sites along the way, it carried equipment that was designed to intercept sensitive communications, said a State Department official, who provided a statement on the condition anonymity to discuss the information. “It had multiple antennas to include an array likely capable of collecting and geolocating communications,” the...

“It was always a matter of when and not if I returned to help re-elect President Trump in 2024, and seeing the current state of the country under Joe Biden I couldn’t remain sidelined any longer."Jason Miller, CEO of social media platform GETTR and a longtime advisor to Donald Trump will be joining the former president’s 2024 campaign to win back the White House. Miller previously worked on Trump’s 2016 and 2020 campaigns. He will be stepping down from his role at the social media platform that was developed as a free speech alternative to Twitter.Miller said in a statement,...

This time, the target was traditional Catholic Christians, but you can be sure they won’t stop with Catholics.A leaked FBI report revealed that the Bureau’s Richmond, Virginia Division is investigating the threat of “white supremacy” among Catholics who prefer Latin Mass. Since the leak made headlines, FBI headquarters rescinded the report, claiming it does not “open an investigation based solely on First Amendment protected activity.” This seems to contradict the document itself, which says its findings are based in part on “liaison reporting.” According to the document’s whistleblower and former Special Agent Kyle Seraphin, liaisons “are overt contacts with trusted...

President Biden on Friday focused on implementing his agenda over the past two years during a meeting with governors from both sides of the aisle, calling for governors to focus on the work that has already been done as he faces a divided Congress. “One of the things we have to do this year is we have, in a sense, almost too much to work with because we got to get done what we already passed, not even talking about new legislation, just what has already been passed,” he said during the National Governors Association (NGA) winter meeting at the...

Health providers won’t help detransitioners who seek to undo the damage of transgender surgery and hormones.After being swarmed by health providers who enabled her to medically transition as a minor, Prisha Mosley now says she’s been abandoned by the medical community as she attempts to navigate a complicated and painful detransition.“I was under the impression that my doctors, who were transitioning me, loved me. They said they didn’t want me to die, they were saving my life, they were worried about me, and they wanted me to be healthy and happy,” Prisha told me. “Clearly, they don’t love me. As...

Most galaxies, like NGCC4414, shine across the spectrum. Dark galaxies remain in shadow. (AURA/STScI/NASA/Public Domain) Galaxies come in many different shapes and sizes, but the basic ingredients seem fairly consistent. There's usually a big black hole at the center, a bunch of stars and gas, and a generous serving of dark matter that helps glue the whole thing together. While dark matter is, well, dark, the stars, gas, and swirling core of heated material stand out with the radiant beauty of a city in the night. However, one newly discovered dwarf galaxy located a mere 94 million light-years away is...

The hero of a novel published 150 years ago has become a byword for black betrayal and subservience. But has he been misrepresented? Gary Younge defends Harriet Beecher Stowe's iconic fictional slave. I had my family watch this complete story...what an inspiration.

Jen Angel, a beloved local bakery owner and social justice community activist, died on Thursday from injuries she suffered in a violent robbery, according to her close friends. She was 48. Her friend, Emily Harris, told KRON4, “I’m devastated. Jen has been such a pillar of love and support, a person who brings so many people together in Oakland.” A statement written by her friends on Thursday night stated, “It is with a heavy heart that we announce that Oakland baker, small business owner, social justice activist, and community member Jen Angel has been medically declared to have lost all...

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's trip to India to visit salt pan workers and stump for "alternative clean energy" shows the 2016 presidential nominee is "envious" of President Biden, former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, D-Hawaii, told Fox News. Gabbard, who since left the Democratic Party, told "Jesse Watters Primetime" Clinton appears envious of President Biden, who sits in the role she wanted seven years ago. She told Jesse Watters she wished Clinton was also sitting for their interview so she could debate her as she has long sought. Clinton notably suggested Gabbard is a "Russian asset," which resulted in the...

published about 2 hours ago The agency wants to send huge payloads towards the moon starting with Artemis 5. Getting there requires more power from recycled RS-25 space shuttle engines. NASA fired up an engine Wednesday (Feb. 8) to boost human moon missions. The RS-25 engine, a veteran of the space shuttle program, has a new design for the NASA's Artemis program. Starting with Artemis 5 late in the 2020s or so, the modified engines will fly on the Space Launch System. NASA says the newer RS-25s will deliver even more power to send the Orion spacecraft, astronauts and other...

This morning in Dubai, Emirati sailor Rashid al Rashidi was executed by firing squad for raping and murdering four-year-old Moosa (Mousa) Mukhtiar Ahmed in a mosque washroom. The pedophiliac crime on the first day of Eid al-Adha in 2009 shocked the United Arab Emirates. Eleven judges have okayed the death sentence; even one of al Rashidi’s own lawyers demonstratively resigned himself from the case of “the suspect who brought shame to mankind. The terrified al Rashidi met his death at a Dubai shooting range this morning, begging for God’s forgiveness … and also that of his victim’s relatives, five of...

Fox News host Greg Gutfeld had a field day roasting the leftist C-suite hacks at the disenchanted Walt Disney Company for their ongoing obsession to out-woke themselves despite their bottom line taking a financial beating. Gutfeld blasted the “sad bastards” at Disney following news that the company was cutting 7,000 jobs and slashing $5.5 billion in costs during the Feb. 9 edition of Fox News’ Gutfeld. “This is what happens when you go woke — the saying is — ‘you go broke,’” Gutfeld said. “You can blame the cowardly execs who let the woke turn Disney into the joke it...

California Rep. Barbara Lee (D) is set to launch a bid for the Senate by the end of the month, joining a race that already includes two other House members, The Washington Post reported Friday. A person with knowledge of Lee’s plans told the Post that she is planning her announcement to go along with Black History Month, which is this month. Reps. Katie Porter and Adam Schiff have both already announced their bids for the Democratic nomination for the seat. Meanwhile, incumbent Sen. Dianne Feinstein, who is 89 years old, has not officially announced whether she will run for...