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  • Lies We Tell Ourselves

    05/21/2025 5:54:39 AM PDT · by MtnClimber · 5 replies
    The amazing part of communism is the ability to exert the most ridiculous statements oblivious of the irony or hypocrisy involved. It’s as if they assume that whatever they say will be given equal weight with obvious truths and common sense, when most of their statements are in conflict with both. In recognizing the dogma surrounding this, it isn’t so much that they put exaggerated lies forward as the truth, but that they seem to garner so many listeners. One must stand back and marvel, not at the lies or liars involved, but those who stand ready to accept it,...
  • She assumed her rightful spot as champion....

    05/20/2025 5:37:56 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 35 replies
    https://x.com/Riley_Gaines ^ | May 19, 2025 | Riley Gaines
    When the BOY got off the podium, she assumed her RIGHTFUL spot as CHAMPION! The crowd erupts with applause. THIS is the way. Congrats to Reese Hogan, the REAL champ!!! VIDEO AT LINK......................
  • High school female track star poses on first-place podium after finishing second to trans athlete: ‘Real champ!’

    05/20/2025 2:35:28 AM PDT · by Libloather · 52 replies
    NY Post ^ | 5/20/25 | Richard Pollina
    A California high school female athlete didn’t let coming in second to a male-born transgender competitor prevent her from standing in the top spot on the podium during placement at a state track and field meet. Reese Hogan, 16, was crowned second place in the triple jump at the CIF Southern Section Finals on Saturday — despite setting a new personal record for herself and the Crean Lutheran High School at 37 feet, 2 inches. Standing in first place, junior trans athlete AB Hernandez of Jurupa Valley, who won titles in the girls’ long jump and triple jump, posed with...
  • Colorado Outlaws "Misgendering"

    05/20/2025 4:45:21 AM PDT · by TigerClaws · 58 replies
    Section 1 of the bill creates the "Kelly Loving Act". Section 2 provides that, when making child custody decisions and determining the best interests of a child for purposes of parenting time, a court shall consider deadnaming, misgendering, or threatening to publish material related to an individual's gender-affirming health-care services as types of coercive control. A court shall consider reports of coercive control when determining the allocation of parental responsibilities in accordance with the best interests of the child. Section 3 prohibits a Colorado court from applying or giving any force or effect to another state's law that authorizes a...
  • Colorado Goes Full Authoritarian Moonbat

    05/19/2025 11:07:57 AM PDT · by Morgana · 40 replies
    Moonbattery ^ | May 18, 2025 | Dave Blount
    In 1984, you could be tortured in Room 101 for believing that 2 + 2 = 4. Likewise, in Colorado you can be set upon by law enforcement for calling someone by the name their parents gave them or even for referring to them with factually correct pronouns. Leftist Governor Jared Polis has signed into law House Bill 1312: The law expands the state’s antidiscrimination laws, which apply to settings like workplaces and schools, to include provisions related to using a person’s chosen name and referring to them how they wish. “Antidiscrimination” is the Liberalese euphemism for government-imposed discrimination benefiting...
  • JOHN KERRY OUTS CIA AGENT

    04/12/2005 5:12:18 AM PDT · by NotchJohnson · 38 replies · 2,080+ views
    Neal Nuze ^ | 11/12/05 | Neal Boortz
    JOHN KERRY OUTS CIA AGENT Remember all of the outrage and liberal indignation awhile ago when former ambassador Joseph Wilson's wife Valerie Plame was outed as a CIA agent? Evidently it was an unnamed Bush administration official that supplied the name....and the results of that investigation have yet to be made public. Well, it's happened again. Guess who publicly outed a CIA agent this time? Massachusetts Senator John Kerry. That's right...The Poodle's faux pas came yesterday as he was slamming U.N. Ambassador-nominee John Bolton at his confirmation hearings. Here's how it went down. For the majority of the hearings, Bolton...
  • That Wasn't Us! Germany Suddenly Drops AfD Surveillance

    05/13/2025 6:16:52 AM PDT · by george76 · 5 replies
    Hot Air ^ | May 12, 2025 | Beege Welborn
    Just a hair over a week ago (ten days to be exact), an official arm of the German government declared the populist Alternative for Germany (AfD) party - now polling as Germany's most popular party in the country - a 'right-wing extremist' group. Yeah, right - so big deal, no? I mean, they've been calling them that forever. Actually, it was a big deal. It made the epithet an official label, opening the party and every last one of its members to constant, sanctioned (instead of surreptitious) government surveillance. It was also the first necessary step in the process of...
  • UK 1984: Retired Police Officer Arrested for Post Criticising Rise of Antisemitism in Britain

    05/12/2025 9:00:23 AM PDT · by MtnClimber · 22 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 11 May, 2025 | Kurt Zindulka
    A retired British police officer was arrested for “thought crime” comments criticising the spread of antisemitism in the country.Former special constable Julian Foulkes, 71, was arrested and received a police caution, a formal warning given by police to someone who admits guilt to a minor offence, over comments he made on social media, The Telegraph reported on Saturday. The arrest took place in November 2023. It came after Foulkes commented on X over the storming of an airport in Dagestan in which an antisemitic mob attempted to hunt down Jewish passengers. In response to a pro-Palestinian activist’s posts threatening to...
  • Bad day for Venezuela's dirty dictator: U.S. rescues dissidents held hostage in Caracas

    05/08/2025 7:14:01 AM PDT · by MtnClimber · 23 replies
    American Thinker ^ | 7 May, 2025 | Monica Showalter
    Going Entebbe on the hostage-taking dictator, right in front of his patron, Vladimir Putin. For Venezuela's fraudulently elected Nicolas Maduro, in Moscow to pay tribute to his patron Vlad Putin, yesterday was kind of embarrassing for both of them. Way under the radar, Secretary of State Marco Rubio had been busy, figuring out a way to make both of them look like weaklings, and with perfect timing, he succeeded: The U.S. welcomes the successful rescue of all hostages held by the Maduro regime at the Argentinian Embassy in Caracas. Following a precise operation, all hostages are now safely on U.S....
  • NEW: Declassified Memo Reveals Biden Regime Ordered Feds to Investigate “Non Criminal” Conservatives Deemed to Be Spreading “Disinformation”

    05/06/2025 7:36:45 PM PDT · by bitt · 32 replies
    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com ^ | May. 6, 2025 | Cristina Laila
    A June 2021 memo obtained by Just The News reveals the Biden Regime ordered federal prosecutors to investigate conservatives who spread disinformation, gun owners and active-duty servicemembers. Per John Solomon of Just The News: A newly released memo from June 2021 shows the Biden administration authorized federal law enforcement to target Americans engaged in “concerning non-criminal behavior.” According to declassified documents, Biden officials directed law enforcement to investigate individuals such as active-duty servicemen, gun owners, and people deemed to be spreading “disinformation.” No other information about the June 2021 memo was released as of Tuesday evening. BREAKING: Biden admin ordered...
  • King FLIPS OUT after Starmer ARRESTS Voters & Farmers for 'Not' Complying!

    05/05/2025 5:29:24 AM PDT · by Eleutheria5 · 187 replies
    The UK is on the brink of political chaos, with Prime Minister Keir Starmer's government arresting farmers, protesters, and even voters accused of "non-compliance" with Labour's increasingly unpopular policies. This crackdown began with Labour's new inheritance tax crackdown on farmland, forcing families to sell off their land just to pay the taxman. Over 300 farmers and protesters have been arrested, many without charge. Videos of tearful mothers, elderly landowners, and young agricultural workers being handcuffed and dragged away are now flooding social media, sparking outrage across the country. King Charles, known for his quiet diplomacy, has reportedly warned the Prime...
  • The West Eats Itself

    05/05/2025 3:56:17 AM PDT · by MtnClimber · 24 replies
    American Thinker ^ | 5 May, 2025 | J.B. Shurk
    Western governments undermine elections, religious freedom, free markets, and free speech. The same Western leaders who speak endlessly about “protecting Democracy” continue to rig elections, outlaw political parties, and prosecute candidates. Germany has declared Alternative for Germany — now the country’s most popular party — an “extremist group” on par with domestic terror organizations. The European Union helped Marxist globalists in Romania invalidate a presidential election and ban the winner from office. France and Brazil have followed the U.S. example of bringing ludicrous criminal charges against popular anti-Establishment politicians, and while President Trump overcame the sham prosecutions targeting him, Marine...
  • Free Speech Under Direct Attack in Texas: House Passes RINO Dade Phelan’s Orwellian Bill to CRIMINALIZE Political Memes Without a Government-Approved Disclaimer

    04/30/2025 6:50:10 AM PDT · by DFG · 79 replies
    Gateway Pundit ^ | 04/30/2025 | Jim Hoft
    The Republican-led Texas House has officially caved to the radical Left’s war on free speech—and shockingly, it’s being spearheaded by none other than the state’s own scandal-plagued former House Speaker Dade Phelan. On Tuesday, House Bill 366 passed with bipartisan support, making it a potential crime in the state of Texas to share or distribute AI-generated and “altered media”—including political memes—without a government-approved disclaimer on political ads. According to the bill: “A person may not, with the intent to influence an election, knowingly cause to be published, distributed, or broadcast political advertising that includes an image, audio recording, or video...
  • Grammy-winning rock star [Winston Marshall] stuns Karoline Leavitt with free speech question [for asylum from UK speech crime laws]

    04/29/2025 3:21:03 PM PDT · by monkeyshine · 30 replies
    NY Post ^ | April 29, 2025 | Anthony Blair
    A Grammy Award-winning rock star left White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt stunned with his question about free speech and political asylum during Monday’s briefing. Winston Marshall, the former banjoist with British folk group Mumford & Sons, called on President Trump to grant asylum to his fellow countrymen and -women who faced prosecutions over “hate speech” in the UK. Marshall, who left the band in 2021, claimed that people in his country faced “extensive prison sentences for tweets, social media posts and general free speech issues,” before ramping up to his question.
  • Meta Oversight Board Fumes As Facebook Ends Censorship Initiatives

    04/24/2025 4:48:15 PM PDT · by Twotone · 9 replies
    The Daily Wire ^ | April 23, 2025 | Nathan Gay
    Meta’s Oversight Board expressed indignation at the social media giant for its January policy overhaul that axed fact-checking and eased restrictions on discussions about immigration and gender identity. The independent oversight board railed against the company for implementing the changes “hastily” with supposedly no transparency about “what, if any, prior human rights due diligence” was performed. Zuckerberg acknowledged that previous content moderation efforts had resulted in “too many mistakes and too much censorship.” President Trump had frequently criticized Facebook during his first term, culminating in his platform suspension following the January 6, 2021, Capitol events — a ban eventually lifted...
  • Biden's National Censorship Regime

    04/23/2025 4:15:41 AM PDT · by MtnClimber · 5 replies
    American Thinker ^ | 23 Apr, 2025 | Wendi Strauch Mahoney
    Under the banner of national security, the Biden administration fused behavioral surveillance with ideological profiling to create a system that was intrusive, biased, and unconstitutional. On April 16, Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) Tulsi Gabbard declassified the Biden-era “Strategic Implementation Plan for Countering Domestic Terrorism.” The release followed an April 2 declassification request from Stephen Miller’ legal organization America First Legal (AFL). While much of the document’s content had been publicly discussed in general terms, the newly declassified version reveals troubling new specifics. The declassified version features language that outlines how the Biden administration planned to operationalize counterterrorism efforts. It...
  • Bill Targets Indiana Treasurer Who Stops Banks From Canceling Christians, Gun Owners

    04/23/2025 6:25:20 AM PDT · by Carl Vehse · 11 replies
    The Federalist ^ | April 23, 2025 | Joy Pullmann
    Indiana’s state treasurer repeatedly stood against big banks canceling accounts and releasing customer data of Christians and conservatives for viewpoint discrimination. A pending must-pass bill in Indiana’s Republican-run legislature would strip some of Treasurer Daniel Elliott’s powers and could give them to those same banks.... Elliott has been a key partner of a nationwide coalition of conservative financial elected officials, the State Financial Officers Foundation. As part of that coalition, he and some 25 other Republican state financial officers have fought financial discrimination against Christians and conservatives, ESG, and DEI.... In a 2024 Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) press conference, Elliott...
  • DNI Releases Secret Biden Plan Raising Serious Civil Liberties Concerns

    04/23/2025 6:30:51 AM PDT · by MtnClimber · 31 replies
    RealClear Politics ^ | 23 Apr, 2025 | John R. Lott Jr.
    Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has declassified a shocking plan by former President Joe Biden’s administration for dealing with domestic terrorists. Last Wednesday, Gabbard released a June 2021 document titled “Strategic Implementation Plan for Countering Domestic Terrorism” (henceforth “the Plan”). But despite the release receiving over 6.3 million views on X by Monday morning, the major media has ignored the document. While Americans are very familiar with many Biden era policies, the newly declassified document reveals that the actions were part of a coordinated action from early in the administration across a wide range of government agencies to target...
  • ‘Ghost Guns’ And ‘Hate Crime’: Tulsi Gabbard Declassifies Biden Admin Docs Targeting ‘Domestic Terrorism’

    04/17/2025 9:48:10 AM PDT · by bitt · 12 replies
    https://dailycaller.com/ ^ | April 17, 2025 | Eireann Van Natta
    Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Tulsi Gabbard declassified documents from the Biden administration Wednesday, revealing how “domestic terrorism” was used as a pretext to attempt to curb gun rights and target “misinformation.” Former President Joe Biden prioritized tackling purported domestic terrorism, and the newly released documents shed additional light on his administration’s strategy. IMAGE As promised, I have declassified the Biden Administration’s Strategic Implementation Plan for Countering Domestic Terrorism. Read it here: https://www.odni.gov/index.php/newsroom/dig/4064-dig-strat-impl-plan-ct-biden
  • Police make 30 arrests a day for offensive online messages

    04/16/2025 5:58:55 AM PDT · by Angelino97 · 30 replies
    The Times of London ^ | April 4, 2025 | Charlie Parker, Yennah Smart, George Willoughby
    The police are making more than 30 arrests a day over offensive posts on social media and other platforms. Thousands of people are being detained and questioned for sending messages that cause “annoyance”, “inconvenience” or “anxiety” to others via the internet, telephone or mail. Custody data obtained by The Times shows that officers are making about 12,000 arrests a year under section 127 of the Communications Act 2003 and section 1 of the Malicious Communications Act 1988. The acts make it illegal to cause distress by sending “grossly offensive” messages or sharing content of an “indecent, obscene or menacing character”...