Kash Patel Seeks $250 Million From Outlet That Reported On His Alleged ‘Excessive Drinking’

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FBI Director Kash Patel filed a lawsuit against The Atlantic on Monday, describing the outlet’s article on his tenure at the agency as “a sweeping, malicious, and defamatory hit piece” in court documents.

The Atlantic published an article Friday detailing alleged “alarm” among Patel’s colleagues over his drinking, and reporting that the FBI Director is concerned that his job is “in jeopardy.” Patel denies the reporting and has filed suit seeking $250 million in damages. The lawsuit names both the publication and reporter Sarah Fitzpatrick, accusing them of publishing “false and obviously fabricated allegations designed to destroy Director Patel’s reputation and drive him from office.”

“Fitzpatrick could not get a single person to go on the record in defense of these outrageous allegations, instead relying entirely on anonymous sources she knew to be both highly partisan with an ax to grind and also not in a position to know the facts,” reads the lawsuit filed in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia.

“Defendants published the Article with actual malice, despite being expressly warned, hours before publication, that the central allegations were categorically false; despite having abundant publicly available information contradicting those allegations; despite obvious and fatal defects in their own sourcing; despite The Atlantic’s well-documented, long-running editorial animus toward Director Patel,” it says.

The article maintains that Patel’s alleged drinking forced FBI personnel to reschedule briefings and meetings. The Atlantic also maintained that his security detail requested breaching equipment normally used by SWAT teams due to their inability to get to the FBI director when doors were locked

“Prior to publication, the FBI expressly informed Defendants that each of these allegations was ‘totally false,’” the lawsuit argues. “The FBI further warned Defendants that these allegations echoed a similar fabrication previously aired by MSNBC’s Frank Figliuzzi on Morning Joe—anonymously sourced reporting that was later retracted by MSNBC and that is the subject of pending defamation litigation—yet Defendants published it anyway.”

Patel previously sued Figliuzzi, a former FBI official and analyst for the left-leaning cable network now known as MSNOW, in June 2025 over a May 2, 2025 comment Figliuzzi made during “Morning Joe” claiming Patel frequented nightclubs in Las Vegas.

The Atlantic issued a defiant statement on X Monday after Patel filed the lawsuit.

“We stand by our reporting on Kash Patel, and we will vigorously defend The Atlantic and our journalists against this meritless lawsuit,” the outlet’s PR team posted on Monday.

Jeffrey Goldberg, The Atlantic’s editor-in-chief expressed similar sentiments when reached for comment by the Daily Caller News Foundation about Patel’s appearance on “Sunday Morning Futures.”

“We stand by our reporting on Kash Patel,” Goldberg said in a statement provided by a spokesperson.

The FBI declined to comment when reached for comment by the DCNF, while the Atlantic repeated the statement posted on X when reached for comment.

Patel, an avid hockey fan, came under partisan fire for celebrating with the U.S. Olympic Men’s Hockey Team after they won the gold medal against Team Canada during the Winter Olympics in February. Patel, who was seen drinking a beer during the locker-room celebration, was in Italy for meetings with Italian law enforcement officials.

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NBC’s Lying Hitpeice on Pete Hegseth

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Not surprising NBC or any of legacy media conducting so called “journalism” is lying about Secretary of War Pete Hegseth’s comments to families of the fallen in the Iran conflict.

Had Obama, Kerry and others who participated in the terrible “deal” with Iran on nuclear weapons development not been hoodwinked by the Iranian regime, this current military action may not have been necessary but you won’t see any reporting on this.

Color Us Shocked: NBC News Caught Lying About Secretary Hegseth’s Comments to Families of Fallen Troops

By Amy Curtis  | March 20, 2026 3:45 PM

It’s incredible how the mainstream media can investigate something when they have an axe to grind or an agenda to push. Earlier, we told you NBC News dug up some European “experts” who said the U.S. and Israel aren’t winning in Iran, despite obliterating their leadership, navy, air force, and missile and drone supplies.

NBC News also dug into comments made by Secretary of War Pete Hegseth about what the families of fallen soldiers told him about Operation Epic Fury.

EXCLUSIVE – Hegseth said today that “family after family” of the service members killed in the Iran war told him: “Finish this. Honor their sacrifice. Do not waver. Do not stop until the job is done.”

But a father who met with Hegseth tells @Petereporter he never said that.

This is such a bunch of semantic bull, even for NBC News.

Here’s more.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth met privately Wednesday with the families of six service members who died in the Iran war and, in a press briefing the next morning, said the message he got was consistent and supportive.

“What I heard through tears, through hugs, through strength and through unbreakable resolve was the same from family after family. They said, ‘Finish this. Honor their sacrifice. Do not waver. Do not stop until the job is done,’” Hegseth said.

One of the people he met at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware was Charles Simmons. His 28-year-old son, Tech. Sgt. Tyler H. Simmons, was among the six crew members killed when their refueling plane crashed in Iraq last week.

Simmons recalled his exchange differently.

“I can’t speak for the other families. When he spoke to me, that was not something we talked about,” he told NBC News in an interview Thursday.

Simmons said he spoke separately to Hegseth and President Donald Trump at Dover and was grateful for the warmth that both men showed him.

And here’s the kicker buried at the end of the article:

Simmons recalled something his son had told him before volunteering for the mission that ended his life.

“He said, ‘Dad, I can’t give you any details, but if civilians knew what we knew, a lot of the criticism [of the war] would cease,” he said.

Secretary Hegseth never said “all families,” he said, “family after family.” But NBC News found the one guy who met with Secretary Hegseth separately and decided to use that as proof that Hegseth is lying about what the other families said. NBC News could have asked the other families, too, but we noticed they didn’t.

NBC News knows that few people will read beyond the first paragraph, and even fewer will read the headline. And if you check out some of the quotes of that post, they got exactly the sort of reaction they wanted: the Leftists accusing Secretary Hegseth of lying.

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How the Media Erased Obama’s Damning Benghazi Confession to Re-Elect Him

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Democrats and their media allies are suddenly wrapping themselves in the First Amendment like it’s a campaign prop. As California Gov. Gavin Newsom sues Fox News for $787 million in defamation over its coverage of a phone call with President Donald Trump, Jimmy Kimmel blasts the FCC for an “attack on free speech” after his show was suspended amid controversy over remarks about Charlie Kirk’s assassination—with affiliates preempting episodes and over 1,600 complaints flooding the agency.

My new book “Clinton Hoax, Obama Coup” reveals the mother of all hypocrisies: In 2012, the media didn’t need lawsuits or regulators. They censored themselves—deliberately vanishing a presidential confession from national TV and refusing to report it at all—to protect then-President Barack Obama and hand him a second presidential term.

Just days after jihadists butchered Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans in Benghazi, Obama sat on CBS’s Late Show with David Letterman and personally pushed the administration’s grotesque hoax: blaming the terror attack on a ridiculous YouTube video.

“Extremists and terrorists used [the video] as an excuse to attack a variety of our embassies, including the consulate in Libya,” Obama declared on air.

The very next day, the National Counterterrorism Center director testified under oath: It was a straight-up terrorist attack. No protest. No video. Premeditated jihadist slaughter.

Yet here’s the real scandal: Not a single major outlet reported what Obama actually said about Benghazi on Letterman. The Washington Post, LA Times, CBS, NBC, and Wall Street Journal all covered the appearance—but every headline magically fixated only on Obama slamming Romney’s “47%” remark. The Benghazi confession? Completely erased from their coverage. They didn’t just ignore it; they actively censored it by pretending it never happened.

Then came the physical vanishing act. CBS and the official Letterman YouTube archives still serve up plenty of clips from that night—including Obama ripping Romney. But the exact moment the President pinned Benghazi on the video? Poof—gone. A third-party uploader posted the full interview on September 19, 2012. It racked up 165,000 views. Time Magazine even embedded the full video … before it was wiped.The Lex Luger account got terminated for bogus “copyright infringement.” The Washington Post’s own link to the full interview now dead-ends in a 404 error.

This was cold-blooded self-censorship on two levels. First, the broader media refused to report the most damaging part of the interview at all. Second, the network that aired it made the evidence disappear. Plenty of other full Letterman episodes with presidents and celebs remain online. But this one—catching Obama red-handed pushing the Benghazi hoax right before Election Day—got erased.

And here’s the explosive question no one has answered: Did the Obama administration  quietly pressure CBS and the rest of the media to kill the clip and refuse to report it? We may never know for sure, but the coordinated silence and sudden disappearance scream coordination at the highest levels. No subpoenas. No FCC complaints. Just quiet, ruthless deletion to prop up the “al-Qaeda on the run” campaign fairy tale.

As “Clinton Hoax, Obama Coup” lays bare in devastating detail, the rot went straight to the top. CIA Deputy Director Mike Morell personally scrubbed intelligence talking points of al-Qaeda references. (The same Mike Morell who later orchestrated the Hunter Biden laptop “Russian disinformation” letter to help Biden win.)

In the 2012 second presidential debate, Romney held a political nuke he never detonated: Obama’s September 18 Letterman interview—six days after Benghazi—where the president personally blamed the attack on an “extremely offensive video” that “caused great offense” and was used by “extremists and terrorists” as an “excuse.” Romney likely never knew it existed. The blackout held and Obama cruised to victory.

The hysterical screaming from Newsom, Kimmel, and others in the media today only exposes their breathtaking hypocrisy. When conservative media drops facts they hate, Democrats sprint to court demanding hundreds of millions. When a liberal late-night host feels heat, they cry “tyranny!” But back in 2012, when their guy needed a damaging confession erased—both from reporting and from the record—CBS and the entire media did the dirty work themselves.

This is the proven blueprint for how the permanent ruling class shields itself from accountability.

My new book Clinton Hoax, Obama Coup rips the lid off the entire machine, from the erased Letterman tape to the intelligence community’s repeated election interference.

The tape—and the reporting on it—may be gone forever. But the evidence in these pages cannot be erased.

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Drew Allen

Drew Thomas Allen is a columnist for The Daily Signal, a conservative author, and publicist who hosts The Drew Allen Show. He is the author of America’s Last Stand, For Christ and Country: The Martyrdom of Charlie Kirk, and his latest book, Clinton Hoax Obama Coup: the Declassified Story of the Trump-Russia Delusion.

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A MAGA Split Over Iran? What MAGA Split?

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Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of today’s video from Daily Signal Senior Contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to see more of his videos.

Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for The Daily Signal.

There’s a lot of talk about a Make America Great split among Trump supporters, and this originated here in context with the Iranian war. I’m speaking on a Monday, the 10th day of the war. And there’s talk in the air that the MAGA base may desert President Donald Trump because, after all, MAGA’s credo was no optional wars in the Middle East.

That came out of a disgust with the 20-year misadventure in Afghanistan and the skedaddle from Kabul that left billions of dollars of weapons, and, of course, the 8,000-plus dead and more casualties in the Iraq and Afghanistan war. But this is different.

This war is only conducted by air, and there’s certain characteristics of it that we haven’t seen before. It’s a top-down war.

We are targeting the leaders, not the military rank and file. We have been taking out, along with the Israelis, 50, 60, a hundred scientists, generals, mullahs, political leaders to decapitate, not try to organically destroy the entire Iranian military.

Second, they were all part of negotiations. We were negotiating with Iran and gave them a lot of options. Just don’t fund your terrorist proxies. Don’t create a bomb, knock it off. And they didn’t want to do it. It’s just like the prior Iran strike last year, where we gave them another option.

It’s very different. You can’t really change a regime, we’re told, if you don’t have ground troops. But maybe there’s something different about the modern age with the sophisticated satellite imagery and reconnaissance, that you know where individual people are by their GPS footprint, by their cellphone communications.

And then you couple that with these highly sophisticated missiles and drones where you can actually take something through a window and dispatch somebody at a meeting. We’ve never quite seen that before.

So, you don’t really need a sniper to take out a toxic Hitlerian-type of leader.

The other thing is that Donald Trump pretty much knows there’s three alternatives that we’ve talked about before. And none of them really require ground troops.

The most desirable obviously would be to get an interim government, maybe former dissidents, get expatriates back, depose the mullahs so that there are—or people in the army, depose them, and then you have elections. That would be wonderful, with the problem solved.

Or you could find somebody within the apparatus, the theocracy that was a dissident and felt that he had military backing, and he would, you know, pick the Venezuela solution. Sort of what we see in Venezuela. We’re not going to nation-build.

The worst scenario is not all that bad. We say stew in your own juice. You know, we mow the lawn and we can do it anytime we want.

We can come back in and destroy your new navy, your new missiles as long as we have a president, post-Trump, who’s willing to do that and ensure that they don’t become nuclear again, or they don’t build another missile fleet. And that’s reflected, getting back to my original point, in the MAGA so-called dissidents.

If you look at polls, and there were some released by CNN, Donald Trump has 87% support among Republicans. That is much higher than Joe Biden had among Democrats or even Barack Obama had among Democrats. And when you look at the MAGA base, the people who identify themselves as Trump Conservatives or Trump MAGA people, the support for the Iran war is over 90%.

And now why? How could that be, when they have told us that there’s a widespread civil war among the MAGA people? That’s what the Left is saying. But when you look at the people who are objecting, you know, it’s the Steve Bannon wing, the Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens, maybe Megyn Kelly, I don’t know.

And they’re saying that this is contrary to the MAGA philosophy of no optional wars. It would be if we insert ground troops, and we’re there for months.

I mean, if we end up bombing, as Barack Obama did, in Libya for seven months without congressional authority, one of the last things he did while in office was to bomb Libya, then that would be another matter.

But nobody has ever seen a war in which one side destroyed the entire air force of the enemy, the entire navy of the enemy, and has got pretty much 90% of its ballistic missile arsenal nullified and probably 85% of the drones and decapitated the entire command and control of the military. And now is looking at secondary targets where maybe Revolutionary Guard headquarters and regional areas, but there hasn’t really been any American losses of equipment.

We’ve had, tragically, seven people killed. But tragically and terribly as that is, in a war of 10 days with being that kinetic, it’s very rare to see such few casualties.

I mean, we’re looking at the Ukraine war. There’s been 1,200,000 Russians killed and probably another two million wounded, probably three or 400,000 Ukrainians. So, this isn’t comparable to what we’ve seen.

And I think the president understands that there is a deadline. And the deadline is going to be met. And the deadline consists of we do not want this war to drag on with the midterms coming up. And he wants to pivot back to the economy.

And the people on the MAGA base who are saying that the party is split in two, they don’t really have a constituency, as the polls, I just told you, illustrate.

They’re loud, they have audiences, and they make points that, you know, you can consider. But they don’t represent a constituency, at least not yet.

On the other side, this sort of, on-to-Cuba, Lindsey Graham wing of the party, I think that after Venezuela, which we didn’t lose anybody. We lost some wounded people that were hurt, but we have a Venezuela solution of a strong person there that will be an improvement over Nicolas Maduro and might lead to elections.

But we’re not going to go on the ground and insist that we’re going to create Carmel, California, in Venezuela.

And we have, as I said earlier, three choices and they’re all preferable to what’s there now in Iran, how the war in Iran ends.

And so, after that, I think the president will say, I’m going to concentrate on making sure that the Western Hemisphere is free, and it’s not captive to the cartels, and it doesn’t kill Americans.

And obviously Cuba might be a concern, but there’s no need now to go into Cuba or to bomb Cuba to do any of that. It’s falling. It’s dying on the vine. And the more pressure we apply, insidiously so, not kinetic or dramatic, it’ll soon, I think, deteriorate to a point where there’ll be a change of government.

But that’s something in the future.

Right now, I think the MAGA base and the Republicans are sticking with Trump because they don’t see oil prices spiking. They don’t see the economy in danger, and they don’t see the war dragging on for months and months like the Libyan fiasco or the misadventures in Afghanistan and Iraq.

What we’re looking at instead, I think, is a spectacular achievement of getting rid of the two worst governments that we were dealing with in Venezuela.

And if we don’t get rid of the one in Iran, at least it’s neutered or nullified so it doesn’t have the clout to subsidize terrorists, and it doesn’t have the wherewithal to threaten us or our allies in Europe, in the Middle East.

More importantly, the Gulf states are now openly hostile or at war with Iran, and they will not be subsidizing Hamas or Hezbollah or the Houthis to the same degree they were in the past, and Iran won’t be doing it at all.

I think people have absorbed that, and now it’s time, I think, to think of the midterms and if they can, they being the Trump people, can overturn the historical trends that the in party usually loses the first midterm, dramatically loses seats in the House and Senate. And maybe they can avoid that by having good economic news.

And with the deregulation, the tax cuts, the energy development, the foreign investment, the interest rates coming down. I think there’s a good chance by June or July, as I’ve said earlier, the economy will be strong and he can point to the foreign policy successes, and that is reflected in the overwhelming support that the recent polls show for the Trump agenda.

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PODCAST: “Junk Science vs. Real Science” and the Corrupt Media

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For years, you’ve been one of the most vocal critics of what you call “junk science” — research that’s politically motivated, poorly designed, or deliberately misleading.

A lot of people hear that phrase but don’t fully understand how widespread the problem is or how it shapes public policy. So how do you define “junk science,” and what are the biggest red flags that the public should watch for when politicians or activists claim something is “settled science”?

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EXCLUSIVE: New Media Network Combats Anti-American Spin by Featuring Veterans, Law Enforcement

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FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Proud American Studios, a new media network, aims to counter the Left’s pervasive bias by highlighting the voices of patriotic Americans who served in the military and law enforcement—a particularly resonant mission amid the recent demonization of immigration enforcement in Minneapolis.

“The recent media coverage out of Minneapolis is a textbook example of why we built Proud American Studios,” Michael Koscielniak, a retired officer with Homeland Security Investigations and the president of the new media company, told The Daily Signal in a statement Thursday.

“Homeland Security officers and agents are on the ground every day enforcing our nation’s immigration laws and removing violent criminals to keep our communities safe,” he added. “These officers deserve their side of the story told in an honest and dignified way.”

Defending ICE in Minneapolis

Proud American Studios released the first episode of its podcast “The Forum” on Saturday ahead of its official launch on March 21. The episode highlights the struggles that the oft-demonized Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, alongside other federal agents, have faced in the field, and criticize the left-leaning commentators and Democrats who demonize their efforts.

“To be straight with you, it pisses me off,” Koscielniak says in a teaser clip for the first episode. “These guys are coming their to do their jobs, and when political candidates or political individuals take this position, they make the jobs of the federal agents and all the other first responders on scene much more difficult. It incites people.”

Darcy Leutzinger, who served 27 years as a special investigations executive lieutenant in the Warren, Michigan, police department, explains the difference between how the law and the media treat an officer after an officer-involved shooting.

“The officer can use deadly force based on what they knew at that time, not what they were judged on later, not videotapes, not slowed down video or hindsight, it’s what they saw based on their perception at that time and that’s all they had,” Leutzinger says. “The media wants everybody tried in the media.”

“It’s one thing to bring a firearm to a protest, it is even more of an issue when you actually want to agitate and confront federal law enforcement within accordance of their duties,” Trey Lindsey, a 20-year veteran of the U.S. Navy who served 13 years with SEAL Team 6, says in the video. Lindsey founded Gallowglass Guardian Group, a tactical, security, and defense consulting company based out of Dallas.

Proud American Studios

“After decades of serving on the front lines protecting this nation, the men and women of Proud American Studios are united in building a patriotic multimedia company that honors the American values,” Koscielniak told The Daily Signal. “Proud American Studios’ mission is to confront misinformation, elevate frontline voices, and deliver fact-driven multimedia that cuts through the noise and challenges false narratives promoted by liberal media outlets.”

Proud American Studios plans to release short video clips, longer podcast episodes, and even full-length documentaries. It has multiple projects in pre-production, including documentaries on President Donald Trump, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and the rise of radical Islam in America; along with movies about the 12-day war between Israel and Iran, and how Homeland Security Investigations has hunted Chinese spies and money launderers.

In addition to news commentary, Proud American Studios plans to produce what it calls “micro-series” videos: short action videos highlighting the heroism of law enforcement. Subscribers can access the content for $99 annually or $17.76 per month, Koscielniak told The Daily Signal.

Dean Cain

Dean Cain, an actor, writer, and producer best known for his role as Superman in the 1990s TV series “Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman,” has joined the project and will be a regular on the podcast “The Homeland.”

“I’m truly honored and excited to be joining Proud American Studios on the ‘The Homeland’ podcast on March 21,” Cain told The Daily Signal in a statement Thursday. “It’s a privilege to work alongside the men and women who have dedicated their lives to protecting this country.”

“Their experience, sacrifice, and commitment to America deserve to be heard, respected, and supported, and I’m proud to be part of that mission,” Cain added.

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Tyler O’Neil

Tyler O’Neil is senior editor at The Daily Signal and the author of two books: “Making Hate Pay: The Corruption of the Southern Poverty Law Center,” and “The Woketopus: The Dark Money Cabal Manipulating the Federal Government.” Tyler on X: .

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The Washington Post Is Being Gutted

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Journalists cry foul while Bezos cries financial bleeding. 

This week, the Washington Post announced dramatic layoffs that will sharply reduce the size of its newsroom and affect nearly every department. International, metro, sports, editing, and specialty desks are all being cut as the paper attempts to stem mounting financial losses.

The reaction from journalists and labor unions was swift and emotional. Statements accused ownership of abandoning the paper’s historic mission. Some went further, arguing that the Post’s owner, Jeff Bezos, should step aside if he is no longer willing to “invest” in the institution.

That framing may be comforting inside the newsroom. It is also deeply misleading.

Because the reality facing the Washington Post is not unique. It is not the result of one owner’s priorities. And it is not the product of a single bad year.

It is the reality confronting every print-based news organization in America.

The myth of “investment” in legacy media

When unions and journalists say Bezos should keep “investing,” what they really mean is continuing to subsidize structural losses indefinitely.

That is not an investment. That is life support.

The Washington Post has reportedly lost close to $100 million in recent years. Its daily circulation has collapsed from roughly 250,000 in 2020 to under 100,000 today. Digital subscriptions surged briefly during election cycles and political flashpoints, then evaporated just as quickly when trust eroded.

No serious business model can survive on the assumption that a wealthy owner will absorb unlimited losses forever.

At some point, math asserts itself.

The uncomfortable truth journalists avoid

Most coverage of the Post’s downsizing treats the problem as a technological issue. Advertising moved online. Social media fragmented attention. Readers no longer consume news the way they once did.

All true. Still incomplete.

What is almost never discussed is the collapse of reader trust, particularly in daily publications that increasingly confuse reporting with persuasion.

Millions of readers do not want to pay money to be lectured. They do not want to open a news app and be told, implicitly or explicitly, that they are morally defective, politically dangerous, ignorant, or part of a fascist fringe simply because they hold dissenting views.

That fatigue cuts across ideology. It applies to the left and the right.

People are willing to tolerate bias when it is honest and labeled. What they reject is bias injected into supposedly neutral reporting, especially when they are asked to pay for it.

That problem is routinely understated, and it matters more than most newsroom leaders will admit.

Why people tolerate bias online but not in print

One of the great ironies of modern media is that people flock to online news even when they know it is slanted.

Why?

Because they are not being billed for it.

If a reader disagrees with an editorial frame on X, Substack, YouTube, or an independent blog, they can leave instantly. There is no subscription guilt, no sunk cost, no sense of being trapped in a moral scolding they paid to receive.

Legacy newspapers ask readers to open their wallets for a product that increasingly blends news with judgment. In a competitive market with endless alternatives, that is a losing proposition.

The internet did not just break the advertising model. It broke the patience model.

The monopoly mindset never adjusted

For decades, large metro papers operated as near-monopolies. If you lived in a city, you had one dominant paper. Classifieds paid the bills. Scarcity protected authority.

That world is gone.

Yet many newsrooms kept the same staffing levels, the same international footprint, the same institutional assumptions, long after the economic foundation disappeared.

The Washington Post’s leadership finally acknowledged this when it admitted the paper was still structured like a monopoly newspaper in a non-monopoly world.

That recognition came late, but it is not wrong.

Bezos is not the story. The system is.

It is convenient to personalize the crisis by pointing at Bezos. It avoids harder questions about journalism itself.

But even if Bezos sold tomorrow, the next owner would face the same facts:

  • Shrinking readership
  • Fragmented attention
  • High labor costs
  • Low willingness to pay
  • Deep skepticism toward ideological framing

No owner, billionaire or otherwise, can reverse those forces with sentiment alone.

The real question is not who owns the Washington Post. It is whether legacy journalism is willing to relearn humility, separate reporting from advocacy, and rebuild trust with readers who no longer accept lectures disguised as news.

Until that happens, layoffs will continue. Not just in Washington, but everywhere.

What Legacy Media Forgot About Trust

At Christian Action Network, we report the facts. We lay out what happened, who was involved, and why it matters. Do we lean in a political direction? Of course we do.

The difference is that our readers know that from the start. We do not hide our worldview, and we do not deceive readers by smuggling perspective into reporting while pretending to be neutral.

We are explicit about our position and disciplined about our facts.

That discipline is not optional. Our work is scrutinized relentlessly by legacy media outlets eager to find even the smallest factual error. The microscope they hold over us is unforgiving, and it forces rigor.

Each of our stories is fact-checked by three separate agencies before we post. We pass the truth threshold because we have to.

People voluntarily support Christian Action Network because they trust us.

That trust was earned through transparency, accuracy, and honesty about perspective. Much of legacy media lost that trust while refusing to acknowledge that paying subscribers now hold them to the same standard they once imposed on others.

The layoffs we are witnessing are not a mystery. They are the market’s verdict on credibility, and credibility cannot survive where humility has been replaced by moral pretense.

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Martin Mawyer

Martin Mawyer is the President of Christian Action Network, host of the “Shout Out Patriots” podcast, and author of When Evil Stops Hiding. For more action alerts, cultural commentary, and real-world campaigns defending faith, family, and freedom, subscribe to Patriot Majority Report.

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Lying Mamdani Invents Budget Emergency to Justify Massive Tax Hikes

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In Michael Bloomberg’s final year as mayor in 2013, New York City actually had a balanced budget. However, under the Marxist mayor Bill De Blasio, New York City’s budget deficit exploded. And continued under Mayor Eric Adams.

Now the Communist Zohran Mamdani is in charge of New York City. And he want’s to do what every Communist does. Steal money from the producers. Be prepared for New York City’s to eventually go bankrupt, since Mayor Mamdani will drive out the individuals and corporations that generate the tax revenue.

Horrible.

Lying Mamdani’s phony budget crisis is cover to raise taxes on New Yorkers to pay for his ‘free stuff’ agenda

Mayor Zohran Mamdani assembled the City Hall press corps Wednesday to announce his shock at finding a $12 billion budget hole . . . that everyone worth his salt has been flagging for a year.

Heck, a hole that Mayor Eric Adams warned about in 2023 at the height of, and as a result of, the migrant crisis.

Mamdani’s pretend budget crisis (more threatening than the Great Recession, he claims) is designed purely to gin up support for soak-the-rich tax hikes to fund his promised billions in new spending.

(Or, if the city’s lucky enough, to give him an excuse for failing to deliver on his promises.)

He’s trying to avoid an outright break with Gov. Kathy Hochul, but wants his allies in the Legislature to bully her into OK’ing state corporate and personal-income tax hikes even though she knows that could threaten her re-election hopes.

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New York Mayor Mamdani says city must hike taxes on wealthy to fill $12 billion deficit

  • New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani said the Big Apple’s wealthiest residents must pay more in taxes to help close a looming budget deficit that tops $12 billion.
  • Mamdani, a Democrat, downplayed fears from some of the city’s business elite that tax hikes will lead to capital flight.
  • He pointed to potential budget savings, citing the Adams administration launching a “basically unusable” AI chatbot that reportedly cost about $600,000 to develop.

By CNBC, Jan 28th, 2025

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Wednesday said the city’s wealthiest must pay more in taxes to help fill the staggering budget deficit of more than $12 billion that he was left by his predecessor.

“This is at a scale that’s actually greater than what we saw here in New York City during the Great Recession,” Mamdani said of that budget hole during an interview with CNBC “Squawk Box” co-anchor Andrew Ross Sorkin at City Hall.

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The Deep State Agenda

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Unveiling the Hidden Forces Behind the Subjugation of the Unsuspecting Denizens of Planet Earth.

WATCH: Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem reveals how taxpayer-funded NGOs have been twisted into a shadow government

For an unsuspecting planet like ours, a dark and malevolent force looms large in the deep dark shadows: the Deep State (DS). This clandestine network of power-hungry elites (sometimes referred to as the military-industrial complex and freemasons), in collaboration with establishment politicians in the Western world, is orchestrating a gradual erosion of liberty and freedom, paving the way for the establishment of a New World Order (NWO). “On Jan. 17, 1961, President Dwight Eisenhower warned the nation about what he described as a threat to democratic government. He called it the military-industrial complex, a formidable union of defense contractors and the armed forces.” President John F. Kennedy also warned the Americans of these secret societies.

Join me as I delve into the hidden truths and expose the sinister agenda unfolding in our time.

A Brief History of the Deep State

Deep within the annals of history, obscured by the veils of secrecy and deception, lies the deep dark origins of the Deep State. Its roots can be traced back to the ancient orders and enigmatic societies that have shaped the course of human civilization. From the Illuminati’s clandestine gatherings to the Knights Templar’s ancient mysteries, the Deep State’s origins emerge from the murky depths of secrecy and power.

Whispers of a global cabal manipulating the strings of power date back centuries, with the powerful elite maneuvering their pawns across the grand chessboard of history. These shadowy figures are believed to have held sway over empires, kingdoms, and republics alike, orchestrating events behind the scenes to advance their nefarious agenda. From the whispered corridors of power to the secluded chambers where the world’s most influential individuals gather, the Deep State has carefully cultivated its influence and control.

Over time, the Deep State’s machinations have evolved, adapting to the changing landscape of geopolitical dynamics. The global elite, those puppet masters at the pinnacle of power, established their dominion over financial institutions, multinational corporations, and intelligence agencies. With a web of influence extending its tendrils into every aspect of society, the Deep State has grown in strength, subverting democracies and eroding the very foundations of liberty.

The Deep State in the 20th and 21st Centuries

As the 20th century unfolded, the Deep State’s grip tightened. There have been pivotal moments, such as the formation of the Federal Reserve in the United States, as evidence of the Deep State’s insidious control. Then there is the creation of a supranational organization like the United Nations, acting as a mere facade for the hidden forces at play.

As we delve into the deep, dark origins of the Deep State, we see glimpses of ancient societies, secret rituals, and hidden knowledge passed down through generations. It was all about a hidden hand manipulating the course of humanity, insidiously guiding us toward a future devoid of freedom and self-determination.

While mainstream voices dismiss these facts as baseless fantasies, it is for common folks like us to question the world we inhabit. Are we truly free, or are we merely puppets dancing on the strings of the Deep State? The answers lie in the shadows, waiting to be unveiled by those who dare to delve into the depths of the conspiratorial abyss.

The Puppet Masters

At the heart of this nefarious plot lies a select group of influential figures who wield immense control in a global and political landscape. These shadowy puppet masters, driven by insatiable greed and thirst for power, manipulate politicians like marionettes to further their own sinister agenda. They exploit the trust placed in them by the unsuspecting populace to implement policies that serve their interests while eroding the fundamental rights of citizens.

While the Deep State extends its reach across the planet, its collusion with certain Western politicians, elected or not, having powers to formulate policies, is a matter of grave concern. These politicians, who present themselves as champions of democracy and liberty, are nothing but pawns in the grand scheme orchestrated by the Deep State. Through backroom deals, secret societies, and covert alliances, these Western leaders willingly embrace the agenda of the New World Order, betraying the very foundations of freedom they claim to uphold.

The Erosion of Liberty

Under the watchful eye of the Deep State, the cherished principles of liberty and freedom on our beloved planet, and especially in the United States,s are gradually eroding. Draconian laws are enacted under the guise of security, while surveillance systems invade every aspect of citizens’ lives. Free speech is stifled, dissent is crushed, and information is tightly controlled, creating an environment of fear and oppression. With its vast influence, the Deep State shapes public opinion and manipulates the narrative to further its own agenda, leaving the people defenceless against its encroachment.

New World Order

The ultimate goal of the Deep State is the establishment of an NWO, where power is concentrated in the hands of the global elites. Under the guise of unity and global governance, the Deep State seeks to strip away the sovereignty of nations and exert total control over every aspect of human existence. The NWO will crush individual freedom, suppress dissent, and impose a uniformity that stifles creativity and diversity.

Secret Societies

Behind the facade of democracy, the Deep State exercises surreptitious control over political processes across nations. Politicians, particularly those in the Western world, are mere pawns in the grand chessboard of the Deep State’s manipulation. These hidden forces pull the strings from the shadows, steering policies and decisions to align with their self-serving interests. Indeed, the Deep State operates behind the scenes, manipulating political processes and decision-making to further its own interests. Even involved in the dark world of Human trafficking and pedophilia, i.e., Epstein Island.

The Deep State’s insidious agenda revolves around the gradual erosion of individual liberties and the establishment of a tyrannical world order as revealed during the COVID pandemic. They operate with the explicit goal of undermining democratic principles by imposing restrictive measures and curtailing personal freedoms.

Global Elites

At the core of the DS lies the global elites—an exclusive and influential group of individuals who pull the strings of power. As mentioned earlier, these groups possess vast wealth and wield immense influence, and are believed to manipulate world events to further their own interests. Their control extends beyond national boundaries, transcending governments and institutions to forge a global system that perpetuates their dominance. They are indeed a new small group of wealthy and influential individuals, sometimes referred to as the global elite ‘psychopaths,’ and are the driving force behind the Deep State. It is a fact, maybe known or not known to the common public, that these individuals use their wealth and power to manipulate world events and consolidate their control over governments and institutions.

Shadowy Organizations and Shadow Governments

The existence of the Deep State is often attributed to shadowy organizations (shadow governments) that operate covertly. Secret societies, intelligence agencies, and international bodies (United Nations) are commonly depicted as players in this clandestine network. These organizations are believed to collaborate in secret, utilizing their covert activities to exert undue influence over national and international affairs, thus advancing the Deep State’s hidden agenda.

JFK’s Speech about Secret Societies

The more we dig into the mysteries surrounding these secret societies, the interconnectedness of stealthy control, freedom suppression, the global elite, and shadowy organizations becomes apparent. The tentacles of this hidden power structure extend their reach across the planet, ensnaring politicians, manipulating policies, and tightening their grip on the denizens of planet Earth.

The struggle for freedom and individual liberties is a call to action for those who dare to question, refuse to accept the status quo, and strive to expose the truth concealed behind the veil of deception. The inhabitants of our planet, and especially the citizens of the US, must wake up to the reality of the existence of these secret societies. They must unite, resist, and reclaim their God-given rights before the machinations of the global elites and their NWO come to fruition.

Conclusion

As we uncover the shocking truths behind the Deep State’s grip on affairs on our planet, it becomes clear that the erosion of liberty and freedom is not confined to the US alone. The struggle against the Deep State and the New World Order is a universal battle for the preservation of individual rights and democratic values. It is up to the awakened inhabitants of Earth to resist, expose the hidden machinations, and reclaim their liberty before it slips away forever.

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Trump on Ilhan Omar attack: ‘She probably had herself sprayed,’ as likelihood grows that she staged attack

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Omar is under a cloud lately for her highly suspicious financial dealings, and could even be indicted. What better time to play the victim card? But this incident reeks of inauthenticity. She appears to make eye contact with her attacker just before he gets up, as if she is signaling to him that the time for the attack had come. She walks toward him after he sprays the liquid on her, instead of running away, as any person undergoing an unexpected attack would be likely to do. And she calmly continues her speech, without any apparent concern for the possibility that the substance could be lethal and that she should go wash it off.

Both leftists and Muslims in the U.S. have demonstrated a strong affinity for claiming victimhood, demanding special privileges or consideration in light of the alleged threat they’re experiencing from “MAGA extremists” or “Islamophobes.” They play the victim card with extreme skill in a variety of contexts, attempting to intimidate their critics into silence and give themselves a patina of nobility all in one fell swoop. Omar’s spraying incident, as transparently fake as it is, is one of the clumsiest examples of this technique, but it’s understandable, after having been coddled for years, that Omar would assume that she could get away with anything, no matter how flimsy.

“‘Staged’ trending on X as MAGA distance themselves from Ilhan Omar attack,” by Charlie Jones, Mirror, January 28, 2026:

Conspiracy theories about an attack on Democrat lawmaker Ilhan Omar are spreading like wildfire on social media as MAGA fanatics try and distance themselves from the worrying incident.

A man sprayed an unknown substance on Omar before being tackled to the ground Tuesday during a town hall in Minneapolis. Thankfully, Omar appears unhurt.

In the immediate aftermath of the attack, the term ‘staged’ started trending on X, with many prominent MAGA accounts claiming it was a setup by Omar’s team.

Donald Trump himself poured fuel on that fire when he responded to a question about the attack saying: “No. I don’t think about her. I think she’s a fraud. I really don’t think about that. She probably had herself sprayed, knowing her.”

The attack came hours after President Donald Trump criticized Omar as he spoke to a crowd in Iowa, saying his administration would only let in immigrants who “can show that they love our country.”

“They have to be proud, not like Ilhan Omar,” he said, drawing loud boos at the mention of her name.

Footage from the meeting shows the man sitting in the front row before getting up and approaching the Congresswoman. Just before that Omar had called for the abolishment of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and for Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem to resign or face impeachment.

The audience cheered as the man was pinned down and his arms were tied behind his back. In the video of the incident, someone in the crowd can be heard saying, “Oh my god, he sprayed something on her.”

Police identified the man as 55-year-old Anthony Kazmierczak with details about the suspect still emerging.

There was a strong, vinegar-like smell after the man pushed on the syringe, according to reporters at the scene. Photos of the device, which fell to the ground when he was tackled, showed what appeared to be a light-brown liquid inside. There was no immediate word from officials on what it was.

Omar, who appeared rattled after the incident, said she didn’t know what the liquid was but continued speaking at the podium…

AUTHOR

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Mainstream Media Refuse to Report the Full Facts on ICE Protests, so Americans Must Rely on X Indies

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Want to view one of the many resistance training videos being used by protest organizers in Minneapolis? You won’t find it on The New York Times or The Washington Post. Forget USA Today. And don’t even bother searching for it on NBC, MSNOW, CBS, ABC, or CNN. The mainstream media isn’t interested in reporting that side of the biggest domestic protests since the George Floyd riots of 2020.

But independent journalist Cam Higby has not only made public “Documenting and Responding to ICE,” a training video hosted by a Chicago political activist, Jill Garvey, he also infiltrated the Signal organization that is coordinating, supplying, and directing the chaos on Minneapolis streets.

Higby has posted names of the members of the eight sub-groups within Signal, extensively quoted the group’s internal communications, and documented in detail how members track ICE movements then direct protestors to specific locations where ICE law enforcement officials most likely are trying to remove an illegal immigrant who could be a hardened, violent criminal from the streets.

To appreciate how deeply Higby has infiltrated and documented Signal, check out his X home, then search on “MINNEAPOLIS SIGNAL INFILTRATED.” There you will find multiple posts like this one that documents how the protestors relay tag and other information on an ICE vehicle located in one of the protest areas. Higby’s infiltration has been so effective that Signal’s operators were forced to take counter-measures that temporarily limited their ability to continue operations. Unfortunately for them, those counter-measures came after Higby exposed the most relevant facts about their structure and operations.

To appreciate the logistical depth and detail of the organization behind the Minneapolis chaos, check out this “pop-up Leftist supply depot” videoed and reported by Gunther Eagleman, AKA David Freeman. You want milk, here it is. You need hand warmers, gotcha covered. How about some hot coffee? Or donuts? Crackers? Water? It’s all there and somebody is paying for it.

This is the kind of organized, equipped and strategically directed opposition to federal law enforcement that George Wallace, standing in the “school house door” at the University of Alabama in 1963, could only dream of having at his disposal. Ditto another avowed hard-core segregationist determined to stop federal law enforcement, Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus, when 101st Airborne troops escorted nine young black students into Little Rock’s Central High School in 1957. And imagine the death and destruction former Confederate Calvary General Nathan Bedford Forrest could have wreaked across the Reconstruction period had he access to Signal-level insurrection sophistication and funding?

In fact, Signal is not something new. To the contrary, Signal duplicates and refines what Eric Schwalm, a former U.S. Special Forces warrant officer, saw happening time and again with highly sophisticated, organized, and funded insurgencies overseas:

“From Anbar to Helmand, the pattern is familiar: spotters, cutouts, dead drops (or modern equivalents), disciplined comms, role specialization, and a willingness to absorb casualties while bleeding the stronger force slowly. What’s unfolding in Minneapolis right now isn’t ‘protest.’ It’s low-level insurgency infrastructure, built by people who’ve clearly studied the playbook. … This isn’t spontaneous outrage. This is C2 (command and control) with redundancy, OPSEC hygiene, and task organization that would make a [Special Forces] team sergeant nod in recognition. Replace ‘ICE agents’ with ‘occupying coalition forces’ and the structure maps almost 1:1 to early-stage urban cells we hunted in the mid-2000s.”

And Schwalm is worried because Signal isn’t in Afghanistan or Iraq or Gaza, it’s right here in America:

“The most sobering part? It’s domestic. Funded, trained (somewhere), and directed by people who live in the same country they’re trying to paralyze law enforcement in. When your own citizens build and operate this level of parallel intelligence and rapid-response network against federal officers — complete with doxxing, vehicle pursuits, and harassment that’s already turned lethal — you’re no longer dealing with civil disobedience. You’re facing a distributed resistance that’s learned the lessons of successful insurgencies: stay below the kinetic threshold most of the time, force over-reaction when possible, maintain popular support through narrative, and never present a single center of gravity.”

Whatever you think of the Minneapolis situation, it could only happen in a limited number of locations in America. How many? Well, Kevin Bass analyzed media reports on anti-ICE incidents around the nation for the past year and found nine counties that accounted for two-thirds of all such violent confrontations.

The nine are all connected to deep-blue big cites with far-Left Democratic mayors and with long-standing sanctuary status, including Minneapolis, Portland, Seattle, Los Angeles, Chicago, San Francisco, Denver, New York, and Newark. Statistically, those nine counties turned out to be 590 times more likely to experience violent anti-ICE confrontations than all of the remaining 3,134 counties in the United States! Coincidence?

Even given all of the preceding facts, however, there is evidence the Signal operation is not perfect, as seen in this video snapshot on X of a “protestor” who, in the midst of a chaotic demonstration, suddenly finds himself able to lift himself out of his wheelchair to pick something up from the street. Either the age of miracles continues or Signal is sending false signals.

AUTHOR

Mark Tapscott

Mark Tapscott is senior congressional analyst at The Washington Stand.

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AWED MEDIA BALANCED NEWS: We cover Energy to Education to Elections — and more!

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— This Newsletter’s Articles, by Topic —

This Issue’s Best of the Best:

*** Trump orders US withdrawal from 66 ‘wasteful’ global organizations in sweeping ‘America First’ crackdown

*** Withdrawing the United States from International Organizations, Conventions, and Treaties that Are Contrary to the Interests of the United States

*** Trump’s Health Reform

*** How the new USPS mail rule could affect your ballot, your tax return and more

*** Corporation for Public Broadcasting board votes to dissolve organization after Congress defunds NPR, PBS

*** Everything Everywhere All at Once — And Somehow It’s All Fascism

*** Is America Destroying Itself?

*** One Fell Swoop: Lawsuit Eyes Death Blow to Racial Preferences

*** Gen Z are arriving at college unable to even read a sentence

*** We Trained a Generation Not to Think, Now We’re Paying the Price

*** Education or Indoctrination? How America’s Schools Broke Our Kids—and Our Future

*** Binary Thinking and its Blind Spots

*** Harvard president criticizes faculty activism, claims university bringing objectivity back to classroom

*** The Trump Administration’s Higher Education Compact: Eight Proposals for Delivering on Its Vision

*** University Retaliates Against Professor for Speaking His Mind

*** What happens when colleges encourage students NOT to think?

*** The Dangers Of Implementing AI In Government Administration

*** 30-Day Brain Detox Challenge

*** Why the CDC’s Pared-Down Childhood Vaccine Schedule is Long Overdue

*** Trump admin’s new nutrition guidelines target ultra-processed foods, ease up on red meat and saturated fats

*** Not all cancers should be treated right away, medical experts say — here’s why

*** Medicaid fraud and abuse are hitting unthinkable levels

*** MAHA Action 1 hour video: 1-14-26

*** NY State’s energy policies absurd, costly (this applies to many other states)

*** Energy wisdom is lacking among public officials

*** Offshore wind turbines steal each other’s wind: yields greatly overestimated

*** Scotland’s Biggest Offshore Wind Farm Wasting Three Quarters of its Energy

*** Why Fossil Fuels Remain Essential to America’s Economic Engine in 2026

*** The Dirty Truth About Lithium Ion Batteries

*** Attacking global electricity poverty

*** UN to Censor All Criticism of the Climate Agenda as Whistleblower Exposes it as a Total Scam

*** New Yorkers Organize Big-Time to Fight Back Against Empire State Climate Insanity and for Safe and Reliable Energy

*** President Trump And The Doomsday Glacier

*** Twenty Years Later, ‘An Inconvenient Truth’ Has Been Thoroughly Debunked

Secondary Education Related:

*** Gen Z are arriving at college unable to even read a sentence

*** We Trained a Generation Not to Think, Now We’re Paying the Price

*** Education or Indoctrination? How America’s Schools Broke Our Kids—and Our Future

*** Binary Thinking and its Blind Spots

*** Let’s take back K-12 education from Progressives (an interview with me)

California school’s far-left gender, ‘privilege’ lesson in sex ed curriculum exposed

The Quiet Education Revolution Happening Outside Traditional Schools

Professor reveals ‘special sauce’ behind writing in cursive as it makes comeback with youth

Higher Education Related:

*** Harvard president criticizes faculty activism, claims university bringing objectivity back to classroom

*** The Trump Administration’s Higher Education Compact: Eight Proposals for Delivering on Its Vision

*** University Retaliates Against Professor for Speaking His Mind

*** What happens when colleges encourage students NOT to think?

To Combat Academic Fraud, Scholars Confront Hallowed Tradition

Artificial Intelligence:

*** ‘Dangerous and alarming’: Google removes some of its AI summaries after users’ health put at risk

*** The Dangers Of Implementing AI In Government Administration

Software as a Medical Practitioner—Is it Time to License Artificial Intelligence?

Alarming truth behind ‘fake’ (AI) singer with 2,800,000 listeners

How the EU is Messing Up the AI Boom

Unreliables (General):

*** NY State’s energy policies absurd, costly (this applies to many other states)

Empire Center Warns of Sharp Increase in New York Electricity Prices

Wind Energy — Offshore:

*** Offshore wind turbines steal each other’s wind: yields greatly overestimated

*** Scotland’s Biggest Offshore Wind Farm Wasting Three Quarters of its Energy

Dominion loses early court battle on CVOW

A speculation on military risk with offshore wind — AI submarines

Fossil Fuel Energy:

*** Why Fossil Fuels Remain Essential to America’s Economic Engine in 2026

Trump’s first year back in office sees major oil and gas permit surge

Electric Vehicles (EVs):

*** The Dirty Truth About Lithium Ion Batteries

Cyclotech’s Revolutionary Blackbird eVTOL

Misc Energy:

*** Energy wisdom is lacking among public officials

*** Activist Groups Sabotaging American Energy Oppose America Itself

*** Attacking global electricity poverty

*** What is Technology

A Tribute to Robert Bryce: More Than Three Decades of Energy Humanism

Supreme Court Weighs Big Case Involving Major American Energy Companies

The essential guide to Micron’s chip project in Upstate NY: the largest private development project in NYS history

Affordability Crisis: Gavin Newsom and the California Energy Disaster

Manmade Global Warming — Some Deceptions:

*** UN to Censor All Criticism of the Climate Agenda as Whistleblower Exposes it as a Total Scam

*** New Yorkers Organize Big-Time to Fight Back Against Empire State Climate Insanity and for Safe and Reliable Energy

*** President Trump And The Doomsday Glacier

*** Twenty Years Later, ‘An Inconvenient Truth’ Has Been Thoroughly Debunked

3 Cheers For CO₂!

The antics of the climate clique

Manmade Global Warming — The Science:

*** The U.S. Energy Secretary just obliterated Net Zero ideology

Notable Quotables on Consensus

More on the Greenhouse Effect

US Elections:

*** How the new USPS mail rule could affect your ballot, your tax return and more

*** Supreme Court Gives Candidates a Weapon in the Mail-In Ballot Wars

Trump:

*** Trump orders US withdrawal from 66 ‘wasteful’ global organizations in sweeping ‘America First’ crackdown

*** Withdrawing the United States from International Organizations, Conventions, and Treaties that Are Contrary to the Interests of the United States

*** Trump’s Health Reform

Government Watchdog Criticizes Proposed Credit Card Interest Rate Caps

Venezuela:

*** Made in Venezuela: Iranian Drones (Dr. Malone substack)

*** I Fled Venezuela to Fight for America (PragerU video)

*** How Maduro’s Daring Capture Will Change The World

US used powerful mystery weapon that brought Venezuelan soldiers to their knees

Who’s who in Maduro case: The judge, prosecutors, & defense lawyers now facing off

Switzerland imposes 4-year asset freeze linked to Maduro, associates following Venezuelan leader’s capture

They Say Scandinavia But They Mean Venezuela (PragerU video)

How Socialism Broke Venezuela (PragerU video)

Why Are Democrats Defending A Narco-Terrorist Dictator?

After Venezuela, Trump sets sights on Greenland

Misc US Politics:

*** Corporation for Public Broadcasting board votes to dissolve organization after Congress defunds NPR, PBS

*** How One White House Council Is Fighting To End ‘Regulatory Reign Of Terror’

*** Everything Everywhere All at Once — And Somehow It’s All Fascism

*** Is America Destroying Itself?

ICE is not the threat to our communities

Will the US Senate Stall Much-Needed Permitting Reforms?

Societally US:

*** One Fell Swoop: Lawsuit Eyes Death Blow to Racial Preferences

Western civilization way of life faces threats

How “Woke” Thinking Leads to Antisemitism

Malicious Chrome extensions caught stealing sensitive data

Blue-to-red state migration’ continues ‘to be a discernible trend

‘Dilbert’ creator Scott Adams, dead at 68

Senate Hearing: Can men get pregnant?

Religion Related:

*** The math of eternity: Why science suggests Heaven is real but beyond our physical reach

Science:

*** The Problem with ‘Peer Review’

*** How to quickly deter China from invading Taiwan — Alex Epstein’s interview with Ethan Thornton of Mach Industries

Mental Health:

*** The Neurodivergence Scam: How Big Mental Health Misleads Parents

*** 30-Day Brain Detox Challenge

*** The Mystery of Intuition: Where Gut Feelings Really Come From

Off the Cuff: The Greatest Scam Ever Perpetrated on the American Public

Health (Other):

*** Why the CDC’s Pared-Down Childhood Vaccine Schedule is Long Overdue

*** Trump admin’s new nutrition guidelines target ultra-processed foods, ease up on red meat and saturated fats

*** Not all cancers should be treated right away, medical experts say — here’s why

*** Medicaid fraud and abuse are hitting unthinkable levels

*** MAHA Action 1 hour video: 1-14-26

MAHA Scores Major Congressional ‘Win’ Against Big Chem. But Will SCOTUS Intervene on Behalf of Pesticide Manufacturers?

‘We Could Cut Our Health Care Costs Dramatically’: Steve Moore Touts Benefits of $3 Meal Initiative

Israel/Ukraine:

Pray for the safety of the Israeli people

Latest Developments in Israel

Pray for the safety of the Ukrainian people

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Latest Developments in Ukraine

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Western Standard does ‘Colour Commentary’ on the Communist Transformation of Canada

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For this purpose, “colour commentary” means to describe the play on the field as if for radio but with no actual explanation of why a thing was done.

There are several layers or spheres to the way information is disseminated in the West now from our perspective. Official narrative dissemination, AKA state propaganda, which has its own subcategories of course, and colour commentary sites, which would be people who notice the effects of various dialectic attacks on our civilization but can’t see past the attack itself to the cause, purpose, or weapons used for it, and the rare strategic look at what is collapsing Western Civ and it’s offspring, individualism.

There are of course more ways of parsing this and more categories depending on which angle you choose to examine the gestalt of information dissemination. And there are many, many counter-measures against real information getting to the public which are extremely effective. Exaggerated or invented claims of horror for one, so that the ‘reasonable man’ will dismiss the real attacks and damages is one way.

During Covid, social media, YouTube and Rumble were rife with the sudden appearance of people with millions of followers who you had never heard of, that made ludicrous claims like dead people emanating Blue tooth signals from the grave caused by formation of home networks by the mRNA shots as just one example.

CBC are masters of different kinds of information attacks. Faking truth-to-power interviews with state apparatchiks where they appear to be making tough demands on the State apparatus when really it is justifying and promoting even more extreme measures and attacks on our liberties than the state was currently doing in order to make existing totalitarian policy look benign and benevolent instead of authoritarian and ultra-vires, which it actually is and was.

“Quebec is implementing Curfews, why aren’t we here in XXX?”. “Trudeau promised there would be enough vaccines for everyone to have 2 shots by now. Why are they not here for us?” as two examples of many.

The Western Standard has a great piece describing what Stephen Coughlin would call, “dialectical bombs” while fully ignoring the actual weapon used to make and drop them.

They list:

  • State funded (and controlled) media
  • censorship and arrests of journalists
  • laws that will destroy freedom of speech and some religions
  • Demolition of legacy statuary etc. that is iconic to the more or less republic of Canada.
  • Changing of street names away from legacy founders of The Canadian culture and polity.
  • Removal of firearms from the law abiding public
  • Destruction of Christian Churches
  • MASSIVE increase in size of bureaucracy
  • Communist party policies match Governing Liberal party policies, including moving away from the USA regular 2 minutes of hate against Goldstein Donald Trump
  • Unified political parties in agreement on anything that actually matters.

The communist state does do what the WS describes here. But the things it notices are symptoms of the communist polity. Without the next layer up it’s about as useful as telling people that it is raining outside while everyone is standing in a deluge without an umbrella. The odd rare person may be in denial of the fact that it is raining buckets, but very few will notice what made it rain and to what purpose.

At its core, the communist state is a dialectical state. The Republic is a state where truth determines policy. The communist state is where narratives are created to force policy that always, always moves power from the individual to the state. In other words, leftwards. Ultimately the goal is a god-like state, exactly as explained in Orwell’s 1984 but is rather well illustrated in some of the recent videos we have posted about North Korea.

There is nothing exceptional about North Korea’s leader-worship. The Soviet Union created The Institute of the Brain as a propaganda organ to promote the idea that Lenin was superhuman. If not an actual God, a saint at least. We can all choke on our own gorge as we think forward to giant statues of Justin Trudeau and Mark Carney set in every town and ready for worship.

Communism never allows reality to overrule ideology

So while the Western Standard’s laundry list of actual end results of various dialectic attacks on Canada is kinda nice to see, and maybe, just maybe a few people will wake up to a basic cause and effect categorical syllogism: ‘Communism destroys Churches, Canada destroys hundreds of churches, Canada is communist’ is maybe useful. But the method used to destroy the churches was dialectic attacks such as Land Claims pledges at every school picnic and public function in Canada, and of course the Mass Graves at residential schools lie.

[At the time the graphic was made illustrating some of CBC’s dialectic attacks against Canadians and our reality as a whole, the Mass Graves Maoist-Mass line narrative attack had not yet started]

For those of you who have a WS subscription or still have a few free posts to read, have a look. It’s a decent catalogue of the effects of communism, if not a mention of the methods to achieve them, and frankly at the very core of the issue. What differentiates a communist society from a republic. The actual epistemology of it. The reversal of cause and effect. The dissolution of all notions of the existence of the individual and the rights associated with that concept.

Republics use Truth to determine policy and outcomes. (new laws, regulations and trial and hearings outcomes)

Communism invents narratives to destroy truth.

If you want an easy mnemonic:

Republics use reason based conclusions.

Communist societies use conclusion based reasoning.

Just watch or read any of the hearings from professional organizations against members who defied narrative from a place of authority and were telling the truth. Dozens of doctors who did not want to coerce their own patients into taking the shots, or worse, warned patients not to.  Or Ottawa Police Detective Helen Grus for instance, who’s mere investigation into a very unusual increase in infant deaths shortly after the mRNA shots were coerced on the public was such a threat to the new Communist state that they crafted an entire new rule that no police officer may launch an investigation where the findings may have political consequences without permission.

Please take a minute and let that sink in. It is the throwing of a core principle of a republic into a tub of aqua-regia.

Politicians and policy are now officially above the law.

Now think about anyone you know who might have woken up to the notion that the mRNA shots were damaging and more importantly, that the state lied when it said they were safe and effective. Not mistaken, lied. Then ask those same people about the mass graves at Residential schools, Global warming, 15 minute cities etc. and see if they are still willing to accept each new mass line as they land.

Understand the dialectic process of the dissolution of Western Civilization or be forever its victim.

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Legacy Media Downplays Christian Persecution In Nigeria After Trump Admin Strikes

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Legacy media outlets downplayed Christian persecution in Nigeria after President Donald Trump’s administration struck anti-Christian ISIS terrorists in the country.

Trump wrote in an Oct. 31 Truth Social post that 3,100 Christians were killed in Nigeria, compared to 4,476 globally, citing an Open Doors report that recorded deaths for the 12 months from October 2023, a White House official said, according to the BBC. Yet legacy media outlets suggested Christian persecution was not a significant issue compared to attacks on Muslims following the strikes Trump announced on Truth Social Thursday.

For instance, Sky News Africa correspondent Yousra Elbagir went on “MS NOW Reports” on Friday to refute the existence of Christian persecution.

“Now, the Nigerian government has come out and acknowledged publicly that they were working with the U.S. in these strikes, that there was security cooperation,” Elbagir said. “But their officials have also had to reiterate that they are not focusing on the protection of one religious group over the other. The Nigerian government has insisted that Christians are not being disproportionately targeted by terrorists in Nigeria, and the data just doesn’t back that up either.”

“Trump has been repeating these claims, apparently to appease his far right evangelical Christian base who have long condemned the targeting of Christians in Nigeria,” she continued. “But having been in Nigeria and been in communities that are targeted by Boko Haram and by ISWAP [Islamic State West Africa Province], I’ve seen for myself that these communities are often Muslim, that there’s no discrimination between Christians and Muslims. And just on Christmas Eve, a bomb exploded in a mosque in Maiduguri, the capital of Borno State, killing at least five people who were there to worship.”

Radical Islamist terrorists from northern Nigeria — including ISWAP, Boko Haram and the Fulani ethnic militia — have carried out almost daily murders, kidnappings and robberies targeting Christians and nonradical Muslims in the nation’s Middle Belt.

Furthermore, over 7,000 Christians were killed in Nigeria in 2025 as of Aug. 10, according to the International Society for Civil Liberties and the Rule of Law.

The BBC published a piece on Friday titled, “Are Christians being persecuted in Nigeria as Trump claims?” The outlet cited sources that cast doubt on the significance of anti-Christian attacks, including data on deaths.

The BBC also referenced political violence monitoring organizations who said the majority of those targeted by jihadist groups were Muslims. It cited Nigerian security analyst Christian Ani, who acknowledged there were terrorist attacks against Christians, but claimed it was impossible to back up assertions of deliberate targeting.

Moreover, CNN published a piece on Thursday after the strikes, titled, “Trump says violence in Nigeria targets Christians. The reality is more nuanced.”

The outlet reported that “experts and analysts” have told it that Muslims have also been victimized by radical Islamists.

“Has the long-running violence killed Christians?” the outlet asked, answering, “Yes – though that’s only part of the picture.”

Still, CNN acknowledged “a spate of high-profile attacks in predominantly Christian pockets of the north” of the country, highlighting examples of mass killings in Christian areas.

Like Elbagir, the outlet suggested the killings were a politically opportune issue for right-wing evangelical Christians.

CNN subsequently highlighted mass killings of Muslims and cited Nigerian human rights advocate Bulama Bukarti, who asserted that public attacks more commonly affect Muslims than Christians.

“Yes, these (extremist) groups have sadly killed many Christians. However, they have also massacred tens of thousands of Muslims,” Bukarti said.

CNN also referenced Armed Conflict Location & Event Data (ACLED), which reportedly found there 317 Christians were killed in targeted attacks compared to 417 Muslims from January 2020 to September 2025. However, the outlet noted that the group did not identify the religion of the overwhelming portion of the over 20,400 civilians killed during the time period.

The Conversation also found in November that church attacks have greatly outnumbered mosque attacks since 2020, using data from ACLED. Nigeria has a similar number of Christians and Muslims, according to multiple reports.

Trump called on Congress to investigate Nigeria in the Oct. 31 Truth Social post, designating the nation as a Country of Particular Concern. He also had warned Nigeria’s government on Nov. 1 that if it did not stop the attacks against Christians, then the U.S. might “very well go into that now disgraced country, ‘guns-a-blazing,’ to completely wipe out the Islamic Terrorists who are committing these horrible atrocities.”

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No Such Office Exists Mr.! Ref: Department of Defense

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Mr Weaver,

As a journalist and a person allegedly qualified to report the news for the Hill surely you understand that when you report a story and make quotes such as —

Senate Republicans are growing increasingly uneasy with the Pentagon’s investigation into Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced his office is escalating its probe into him.

You don’t mention the names of these Senate Republicans and well — I am unable to locate the Office of the Secretary of Defense to verify your story regarding the soon to be court martialed Captain Mark Kelly. I did find Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, he is a pretty good friend of mine.

Just to clue you in considering your degree is in the Arts and not journalism — no such Defense Office exists and no such position exists in the Pentagon Ref: Office of the Secretary of Defense.

Please visit: Secretary of War | U.S. Department of War

I am not sure why the Hill hired you; perhaps it’s your dynamic personality not so much your journalistic integrity. But low IQ folks like you that disrespect the office of War created to protect our republic and the disrespect you have for our military folks seem to be the latest trend in the media hiring these days.

Senior Chief Geoff Ross
Surface Warfare — Air Warfare
U.S. Navy Retired

Copy to:

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth

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