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The FBI is conducting three times as many domestic terrorism investigations than it was five years ago, with 70 percent of its open cases focused on "civil unrest" and anti-government activity, according to FBI documents and government specialists. The Bureau has also quietly changed the general classification of white supremacy, antisemitism, abortion-, and anti-LGBTQI+-related extremism to "hate crimes" rather than "terrorism." Since terrorism remains the top national security priority, this has lowered the visibility and resources dedicated to those issues. The FBI considers all violent acts (and threats of violence) with a political motive to be terrorism, a senior government...

Mainstream news reporters — in lockstep with Democratic strategists — rushed to social media to smear journalist Matt Taibbi as a “sad” “fraud” as he released his bombshell report on political censorship at Twitter. “Matt Taibbi…what sad, disgraceful downfall,” Daily Beast columnist and New York Times contributor Wajahat Ali posted. “Selling your soul for the richest white nationalist on Earth.” On Friday, billionaire Elon Musk — who vowed to give the social media giant a free-speech overhaul when he bought it last month — released to Taibbi a shocking collection of inside correspondence proving that Democrat insiders leaned on Twitter’s...

Oliver Darcy had a sad announcement about CNN’s future. It involved a boatload of pink slips. Maybe if they hadn’t been so indifferent to the lives destroyed by shutdowns, people would be more sympathetic. You remember Oliver, don’t you? He and Brian Stelter were tip-of-the-spear in the Cancel Culture game and may have been the ones who personally kicked the deplatforming game into high gear by having Twitter put a hit out on someone who got an army of meme-lords to mock CNN’s remaining credibility into oblivion. ClashDaily covered THAT story long before nuking accounts from orbit had become an...

Two network news veterans and key players from the Lincoln Project are teaming up to launch a "pro-democracy" media company on the same day that former President Trump is expected to announce his 2024 bid. Why it matters: The founders of the new website, Resolute Square, say they aim to counter the right-wing media ecosystem — and be a home to people who reject political extremism and the GOP.

CNN anchor Don Lemon boldly asserted the network has never had a liberal stance — despite an ongoing push from top boss Chris Licht for more centrist coverage. The left-leaning Lemon, best known for his vocal criticism of prominent Republicans, made the dubious claim during an appearance on “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” on Monday after the comedian nudged him to address CNN’s recent move toward nonpartisan coverage. “Word on the street is that you guys aren’t allowed to be liberal anymore. Is that the case?” Colbert asked. “I don’t think we ever were liberal,” Lemon replied. Lemon’s answer...

Black Twitter is mourning the possible end of the influential community they found on Twitter more than a decade ago, but users are split between finding a new app or staying put. “I’m not ready to go because I feel like that’s the case with a lot of things. Black people bring culture, community and love and so much energy and spirit and soul to whatever places we inhabit, and then someone else comes in and totally disrupts the energy and we leave, and they benefit from what we built,” Eunique Jones Gibson, an avid Twitter user and CEO of...

Don Lemon has unwittingly let CNN's cat out of the bag. Guests aren't there to engage in an actual discussion. They're brought on to express a specific opinion. And if they try to stray from CNN's script, they will be shut down. Lemon gave a perfect illustration of the phenomenon on Monday's CNN This Morning. The guest was Len Khodorkovsky, a former Trump administration official, who is Jewish. And in Lemon's mind, the clear purpose of Khodorkovsky's appearance was to have him criticize Trump for hosting a dinner with Nick Fuentes and Kanye West. In fact, in a variety of...

As the United States rolled back the clocks one hour this month to observe the end of Daylight Saving Time, many people got a bit more sleep than usual – but some not as much as others. Growing evidence shows that lack of sleep and sleep disorders, such as obstructive sleep apnea, remain more prevalent in Black, Asian, and Hispanic or Latino communities, and these inequities can have long-term detrimental implications for physical health, even raising the risk of certain chronic diseases.*** Now, some sleep researchers worry about the potential effects that continuing to change standard time twice each year...

In a New York Times guest essay, MSNBC anchor Chris Hayes claimed that “in under a month” all of his “worst fears have been realized” in regard to how new Twitter owner Elon Musk has run his new social media platform. Hayes claimed that Musk “courted some of the worst trolls” on Twitter, has scared off advertisers and cut staff that handle the basic functions of the platforms. Hayes also expressed worry that under Musk, the platform may “break down and stop working altogether.”

We know, NBC is gonna NBC, but this was bad, even for them. Forget that two hours is a ridiculously short amount of time to respond to an article in general, but that it was a request to respond to a piece blaming her for a shooting she had nothing to do with? Pretty shady, NBC. Libs of TikTok was quick to call them out as only she can: Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok Hi! We’re running a story in 2 hours accusing you of being anti-LGBT and explaining how you’re responsible for the Colorado shooting. Can you give us a...

The White House’s game-playing over media access to first granddaughter Naomi Biden’s wedding this past weekend has been too much for some reporters to take — with one Washington Post scribe comparing the administration to Biden’s predecessor, Donald Trump. WaPo national correspondent Ashley Parker was one of several journalists to express outrage after the press was locked out of Naomi Biden’s “private” wedding — only for Vogue to publish a photo spread of the blushing 28-year-old bride alongside first lady Jill Biden on Tuesday. “I had reporting in [October] about Vogue being tapped to cover this and I was waved...

Earlier today, Business Insider dropped a bombshell about Elon Musk having close and substantial financial ties to disgraced FTX head and über-extreme-ultra-mega crypto crook Sam Bankman-Fried: Sam Bankman-Fried reportedly owns a $100 million stake in Elon Musk's Twitter https://t.co/QrQI8lfz3F — Business Insider (@BusinessInsider) November 23, 2022 -snip There was just one teeny-tiny, itsy-bitsy little problem with Business Insider’s scoop: it wasn’t true. Elon Musk @elonmusk Replying to @BusinessInsider False. Also, Business is still not a real publication. Just give up. 3:15 AM · Nov 23, 2022

You know what my favorite thing about conspiracy theories is? When they come true. And sure, I hear ya, us righties knew the Hunter Biden laptop story was real right when the story broke, but let me remind you of what the corporate left-wing media fed their audience once they got their memo from the totally trustworthy CIA and FBI: VIDEO AT LINK...................... "A Russian intelligence disinformation campaign." Just out-of-control comical! These people lied on purpose, and now, after more than two years, they're finally dropping the story. And boy, oh boy, is the Biden Crime Family in some big...

I try not to jump on stories the foundations of which I am uncertain, but the left has no such constraints. So consumed with hate, the left-wing media seized upon the tragic shooting in Club Q in Colorado Springs and it could not resist blaming anyone and everyone on the right. NBC reporter Brandy Zadronzy blamed "Q Anon."“The LGBT community has always been a subject of hatred for a certain brand of fringe kind of person, right? But something happened in March and April of this year,” Zadronzy told MSNBC host Chris Jansing. “In March and April of this year,...

2016 ordeal over Wikileaks' DNC dump showed reporters that there's a simple and quick method for verifying emails' authenticity. By 2020, they forgot it. More than two years after the New York Post broke the news of crack addict-turned-first son Hunter Biden’s laptop, CBS News reported that the laptop is authentic — just days after the second election day in which it might have made a difference. CBS said it commissioned experts at a Minneapolis-based firm called Computer Forensics Services to evaluate the hard drive. It used a variety of digital techniques, but in the end, it leaned heavily on...

It only took them 769 days. CBS News said Monday that it confirmed the authenticity of data from Hunter Biden’s former laptop — more than two years after The Post first revealed its contents — as the first son’s lawyer complained he didn’t “consent” to the release. The laptop links President Biden to his son Hunter and brother Jim Biden’s foreign influence-peddling, but high-ranking former spy agency officials claimed before the 2020 election it was likely Russian disinformation and the story was censored by Twitter and Facebook. Most news outlets ignored the laptop’s contents until recently. CBS’s report follows belated...

Readers know that when you watch CBS News, much of what you see is spin, but a report regarding Hunter Biden’s infamous laptop from the legacy media network on Monday really takes the cake. On November 21, CBS News finally aired a segment “confirming” that it “independently verified” the contents of the president’s son’s computer which he left behind at a Delaware repair shop. This “news” came nearly two and a half years after the laptop first popped up during the 2020 election cycle. Conservatives on Twitter quickly let the network have it for the Johnny-come-lately reporting. “Two years after...

For those of us who have written about the Hunter Biden scandal and the family’s influence-peddling operation for years, it is routine to read media stories denying the facts or dismissing calls to investigate the foreign dealings. However, this weekend, the Associated Press made a whopper of a claim that there is no evidence even suggesting that President Joe Biden ever spoke to his son about his foreign dealings. I previously discussed how the Bidens have succeeded in a Houdini-like trick in making this elephant of a scandal disappear from the public stage. They did so by enlisting the media...

CBS News is halting its activity on Twitter over Elon Musk’s turbulent and potentially devastating moves following his takeover of the company. “In light of the uncertainty around Twitter and out of an abundance of caution, CBS News is pausing its activity on the social media site as it continues to monitor the platform,” Jonathan Vigliotti, CBS News national correspondent, said in a report about the latest chaos at the company on the “CBS Evening News” Friday.

CLAIM: The Associated Press claimed Saturday that Republicans have not put forward evidence that President Joe Biden and his son Hunter have “spoken” about the family’s foreign business dealings. VERDICT: FALSE. Republicans have submitted a recording of Joe Biden leaving a voicemail for Hunter Biden about a business deal with a Chinese energy company, along with whistleblowers that have stated Joe Biden was intimately involved in the Biden family business.