Month: November 2023

Sen­ate bor­der deal nego­tia­tors say they’re ‘stuck’ amid asy­lum and parole dis­putes

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Sen­a­tors are at an impasse in their nego­ti­a­tions on a bipar­ti­san bor­der secu­ri­ty deal to be includ­ed in Pres­i­dent Joe Biden’s sup­ple­men­tal defense spend­ing bill. The bipar­ti­san group acknowl­edged the dif­fi­cult real­i­ty to reporters on Thurs­day, with mul­ti­ple mem­bers say­ing that nego­tia­tors were “stuck.” The com­ments were not entire­ly sur­pris­ing, as nego­tia­tors had been cau­tion­ing […]

 

DeSan­tis bran­dish­es Gen­der Queer book at New­som debate: ‘It’s pornog­ra­phy’

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Gov. Ron DeSan­tis (R‑FL) brought props to his high­ly antic­i­pat­ed debate against Gov. Gavin New­som (D‑CA). DeSan­tis dis­played a copy of Gen­der Queer: A Mem­oir, a graph­ic book writ­ten and illus­trat­ed by Maia Kob­abe, dur­ing the pair’s dis­cus­sion about edu­ca­tion and parental rights. The gov­er­nor con­tend­ed it was an instance of a book taught in […]

 

Gavin New­som tells Ron DeSan­tis ‘nei­ther of us’ will be 2024 nom­i­nees

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Gov. Gavin New­som (D‑CA) offered a blunt assess­ment of Gov. Ron DeSan­tis (R‑FL) dur­ing their Thurs­day night debate, telling the pres­i­den­tial hope­ful he won’t win the White House. “There are pro­found dif­fer­ences tonight, and I look for­ward to engag­ing them. But there’s one thing in clos­ing, that we have in com­mon, is nei­ther of us […]

 

Shel­len­berg­er tells weaponiza­tion sub­com­mit­tee US and UK turned ‘psy­cho­log­i­cal oper­a­tions’ against Amer­i­cans

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Jour­nal­ist Michael Shel­len­berg­er tes­ti­fied in front of a House Judi­cia­ry sub­com­mit­tee on Thurs­day, claim­ing mil­i­tary con­trac­tors for the Unit­ed States and the Unit­ed King­dom have used dis­in­for­ma­tion tac­tics against Amer­i­cans. Shel­len­berg­er said the tac­tics and silenc­ing of peo­ple who dis­agreed with a cer­tain point of view were worse than he had pre­dict­ed in front of […]

 

Damn­ing New Files Reveal Gov’t Efforts to Spy on, Silence Speech

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New files reviewed by inde­pen­dent jour­nal­ists Matt Taib­bi and Michael Shel­len­berg­er reveal that data sci­en­tists and defense and intel­li­gence vet­er­ans alleged­ly con­spired to cen­sor Amer­i­cans via an “‘anti-dis­­in­­for­­ma­­tion’” group called the Cyber Threat Intel­li­gence League (CTIL). In three X threads, Shel­len­berg­er and Taib­bi wrote Nov. 28 that a whistle­blow­er has come for­ward with damn­ing doc­u­ments […]

 

Law­mak­ers accuse intel­li­gence com­mu­ni­ty of stonewalling on UFOs

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Bipar­ti­san law­mak­ers claimed the fed­er­al gov­ern­ment is not trans­par­ent about the occur­rences of uniden­ti­fied aer­i­al phe­nom­e­na, even accus­ing their con­gres­sion­al col­leagues of par­tic­i­pat­ing in the “stonewalling” of infor­ma­tion. Reps. Tim Burchett (R‑TN), Anna Pauli­na Luna (R‑FL), Jared Moskowitz (D‑FL), Matt Gaetz (R‑FL), Andy Ogles (R‑TN), and Eric Burli­son (R‑MO) held a Capi­tol press con­fer­ence Thurs­day […]

 

Twit­ter Files Jour­nal­ist Calls on Con­gress to Tar­get ‘Un-Amer­i­can’ Gov’t Cen­sor­ship

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Twit­ter Files jour­nal­ist Michael Shel­len­berg­er called gov­ern­ment cen­sor­ship efforts “pro­found­ly un-Amer­i­­can” in his Con­gres­sion­al tes­ti­mo­ny Thurs­day. The Nov. 30 Con­gres­sion­al hear­ing on the “Weaponiza­tion of the Fed­er­al Gov­ern­ment” fea­tured Twit­ter Files jour­nal­ists Matt Taib­bi and Michael Shel­len­berg­er. “In 2020, the Depart­ment of Home­land Security’s CISA vio­lat­ed the First Amend­ment and inter­fered in the elec­tion,” Shel­len­berg­er […]